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SuperTeamRyan t1_iyi1ewk wrote

Reply to comment by ThreeLittlePuigs in New York’s Plan to Address Crisis of Mentally Ill Faces High Hurdles by CactusBoyScout

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/nyregion/nyc-homeless-eric-adams.html

About 50k homeless in NYC with about 48k residing in a shelter. That gives us about 2k street homeless our numbers apparently aren't higher.

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_iyi1scv wrote

Math isn’t nearly that clean. There’s actually just over 60,000 folks in shelters and not everyone “in a shelter” is accounted for or not a potential psych case. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number were talking about is closer to 3-4k for the most problematic folks, but that’s still way more than we have the resources / beds to house. As I mentioned there aren’t enough beds as is for even normal psych cases

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SuperTeamRyan t1_iyi6t56 wrote

Do you have any sources for the estimated street homeless population?

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_iyi9tg5 wrote

There’s different folks that do counts. Coalition for the homeless does one, as does Downtown Gooddard. Census does one as well

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Curiosities t1_iyj1mht wrote

There are also a number of people who are technically homeless but staying with people on a kind of transient and unstable basis. These are also among the parents of the over 100k homeless students in public school.

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SuperTeamRyan t1_iyj30wb wrote

I get that but we're specifically talking about the homeless in the context of violent or aggressive mentally unstable homeless people. If you are couch surfing there are people taking care of you to some degree and you're less likely to be one of those guys on the subway or street people complain about.

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Curiosities t1_iyjcgnm wrote

My comment was essentially that you've undercounted the homeless on the whole. Takes nothing away from the discussion at hand.

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