NYC's Homeless Population: 50,000

[Brown_Pride]

I think the real question is why you're so focused on what is clearly a minority of the homeless population as if they have some major impact on the economy. And the idea that aggressive panhandling is a major factor in people's decisions about leisure outing spending seems a bit far-fetched.

yeah i think it's safe to say SOME people CHOOSE to be homeless but they are not representative of the majority of the homeless population.

Pretending otherwise is intellectually dishonest and at best a game of semantics.

 

[superunknown23]

This graphic is misleading. Those are only folks who were in shelters.
Most homeless people in the awful 1980s were sleeping on the street (and there was LOTS of them).
Homelessness in NYC today isn't even close to what it was in the 80s.

NYC is too expensive for those million homeless people. Nevermind "affordable" housing, they need to leave the city and seek their fortunes elsewhere. Homeless people should NOT have children.

That's how Giuliani drove them out.
New York was so full of homeless people sleeping on the street (and Grand Central Station) that their sudden disappearance sparked conspiracy theories...
I heard nikkas say they were all secretely killed