Homelessness in NYC at a record high despite decrease in migrant population: report

Homelessness is astatine a grounds precocious successful New York City with structure occupancy increasing adjacent arsenic the migrant colonisation is decreasing, according to the latest “Mayor’s Management Report” that measures the show of metropolis agencies successful delivering services.

More than 87,000 individuals resided successful the Department of Homeless Services strategy per time connected mean successful the July to October 2024 play covering the commencement of fiscal twelvemonth 2025, according to the 458-page papers released Thursday. In fiscal twelvemonth 2022, that fig was astir 46,000.

A DHS spokeswoman said the precocious fig of structure occupants is owed to the migrant crisis and that families with children, including migrants, are staying successful shelters longer than mean implicit the aforesaid clip play past year. The metropolis has besides shuttered immoderate exigency asylum seeker shelters, with the DHS strategy absorbing remaining residents.

The precocious level of stateless structure occupants comes contempt an uptick successful radical leaving shelters for permanent housing, with astir 30% much households moving retired of shelters to homes of their own, and contempt less people, particularly migrants, entering the structure strategy than past year.

The report, which covers astir 50 municipal agencies and organizations that study to Mayor Adams — including the NYPD, FDNY, Department of Sanitation, Department of Correction and adjacent Parks and Recreation — is released doubly a twelvemonth and gives a snapshot of however City Hall is doing compared to its goals. The adjacent study volition encompass the full July 2024 to June 2025 fiscal year.

“Our medication is focused connected making New York City the champion spot to rise a family. Whether it is driving down crime, connecting much radical to SNAP and low-cost kid care, winning the warfare connected rats, oregon gathering lodging astatine grounds levels, we are delivering connected that ngo and making our metropolis safer and much affordable for working-class New Yorkers,” Adams said successful a statement.

In the class of nationalist information — a huge precedence for the mayor — large felony transgression fell by 2% overall, with robberies, burglaries and expansive larceny down but murders and felony assaults up. Reports of rape accrued by astir 19%, the study said.

Hate crimes increased by 11%, which the study said was driven by “religiously motivated incidents.”

Youth felony arrests jumped 16% since the aforesaid clip framework past twelvemonth — with robberies and burglaries expanding and expansive larceny, which includes car theft, down from past twelvemonth by 23%.

NYPD emergency effect times to get to these crimes somewhat improved from past fiscal year, with the constabulary section taking an mean of 15 minutes and 49 seconds to respond, compared to implicit 16 minutes successful past year’s window.

Under the Adams administration, the Rikers colonisation has continued swelling, with the Department of Correction reporting it had 8,135 caller inmates travel into the metropolis jailhouse strategy betwixt July and October 2024. That’s up from the 7,589 implicit the aforesaid span successful 2023.

The streets were somewhat safer for motorists and pedestrians successful the archetypal portion of fiscal twelvemonth 2025 compared to the aforesaid play past year, with postulation fatalities dropping by much than 30%, mostly owed to less deaths successful the “motorized two-wheeled vehicles” class that includes scooters and e-bikes. However, determination were 3 much accepted bicyclist deaths successful that period.

During his run Adams promised to physique dozens of caller autobus routes. However, the study shows the metropolis created little than a mile of caller autobus lanes — 0.9 — from July done October 2024, compared to 8.6 miles successful the erstwhile clip frame.

The study blamed “resource restraints related to Citywide budgetary limitations affected planned accumulation targets” for wherefore that fig is truthful low.

The mayor’s committedness to physique 300 miles of bike lanes is besides falling short, with conscionable 9 miles built during that clip successful 2024, compared to 23 miles successful 2023.