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100

Homelessness in NYC is at its highest levels since this event. 

What is the Great Depression?

100

Cities implement these laws to prohibit activities associated with homelessness, such as sleeping in public spaces.

What are anti-homeless ordinances? 

100

The #1 contributing factor for women experiencing homelessness

What is Gender-Based Violence? 


100

This phrase is used for a household spending more than 30% of its income on rent. 

What is rent burdened? 

200
This many migrants have recently come to NYC to take advantage of the right to shelter mandate. 

What is 175,000?

200

This many NYC voters believe housing and homelessness are a major issue.

What is 3/5 or 60%?

200

Law enforcement prioritizes addressing low-level offenses and disorderly conduct, often targeting homeless individuals for behaviors like panhandling or loitering, through this approach.

What is quality of life policing?

200
The main reason Trans and Non-Binary people avoid shelters
What is abuse from staff? 
200

The predominant reason for homelessness in NYC

What is the lack of affordable housing?

300

The country with the highest NUMBER of unhoused people

What is Nigeria?

300

A worker from the Bronx would need to work this many hours a week at the borough's typical wage to afford a one-bedroom apartment. 

What is 66 hours?

300

Laws targeting homeless individuals have been said to violate constitutional rights, including these two Amendments (name one)

What are The Fourth (unreasonable search and seizure) and the Eighth (protection against cruel and unusual punishment) amendments?

300

This is the reason women in Brazil are less likely to make their homelessness 'official' 

What is fear of losing custody of their children? 

300

In November 2023, this many people stayed in NYC's main municipal shelter system.

What is 92,879?

400

This racial group experiences homelessness at the highest rate in the United States. 

What is Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders?

400

The Right to Shelter Mandate was established in this year

What is 1981?

400

These laws  aimed at enforcing public order, can disproportionately affect homeless individuals who rely on public spaces for shelter, leading to arrests and incarceration for activities such as sleeping in doorways or sitting on sidewalks. 

What are trespassing and vagrancy laws?

400

This is the average life expectancy for women who are sleeping rough in England and Wales 

What is 41?

400

This phrase designates a a structure that rents beds to single adults. They have characteristics associated with housing instability and predispose tenants to a heightened risk of homelessness. 

What are three-quarter houses?

500

The country's oldest advocacy and direct service organization.

What is the Coalition for the Homeless?

500

This percentage of the US jail population reported an episode of homelessness in the year before they were incarcerated.

What is 15%?

500

This percentage of non-binary people experience unsheltered homelessness

What is 82%?
500

This man allegedly delayed reporting a violation of the right to shelter mandate and did not give a full account of the situation to the mayor's office

Who is Gary Jenkins?

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