Post by gwyn on Nov 22, 2024 16:14:49 GMT
abbey1227, darkramj, yeah. NY doesn’t share Cook County bullshit definitions, unless you two are vastly misunderstanding the definition of “doubled up” as meaning two places to live where it literally means two households worth of people living in one place, as in couch surfing… because you’re homeless. This is the source material for the NYT articles: advocatesforchildren.org/policy-resource/student-homelessness-data-2023/
The new data, obtained from the New York State Education Department by AFC, show that, of the more than 119,000 students in temporary housing last year, 40,840 (34%) spent time living in City shelters; more than 72,500 (61%) were “doubled up,” or temporarily sharing the housing of others due to loss of housing or economic hardship; and about 5,900 were living in hotels or motels, unsheltered, or otherwise lacking a regular and adequate nighttime residence.