Record Homeless. Among the nice little tidbits found in New York Newsday's story about the recent NY subway fire is this cheery little bit,

"The total shelter population right now is at the highest points since the Great Depression," said Patrick Markee, senior policy analyst at the Coalition for the Homeless.

Of the 36,000 plus homeless in New York "only" 8, 805 were single. That's a lot of families living in homeless shelters. Think about these figures in light of New York City's Housing Authority announcing that Georgie & the Radical Republicans will "provide $50 million less than what the agency needs to provide rent vouchers for low-income residents this year." According to the NYT that means 6,000 fewer housing vouchers. That means at least 6,000 people on the streets. And it's just not New York City that's suffering from Georgie's reforms to Section 8, cities and counties across the country are facing funding shortfalls and will most likely have to turn folks out.
posted by Idle Crank at 1/27/2005 09:55:00 PM