New York City spent about $81,705 per unsheltered homeless person last year, up from $28,428 six years earlier, according to a new report from the state comptroller.

In a report released this March, the Office of the New York State Comptroller found that the city’s unsheltered population rose from 3,588 in FY2019 to 4,504 in FY2025. Over the same stretch, spending ...

NEW YORK — Homeless subway rider Diego Sergio de los Rios, sitting inside a train at the 242nd St. subway station in the Bronx, was actually looking forward to a visit from the NYPD. Yet on day one of ...

NYC homelessness spending skyrockets 262% to $368M since 2019, yet street homeless population grows 26%, raising serious questions about program effectiveness.