Homelessness in NYC is at its highest levels since this event.
What is the Great Depression?
Cities implement these laws to prohibit activities associated with homelessness, such as sleeping in public spaces.
What are anti-homeless ordinances?
The #1 contributing factor for women experiencing homelessness
What is Gender-Based Violence?
This phrase is used for a household spending more than 30% of its income on rent.
What is rent burdened?
What is 175,000?
This many NYC voters believe housing and homelessness are a major issue.
What is 3/5 or 60%?
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?
The predominant reason for homelessness in NYC
What is the lack of affordable housing?
The country with the highest NUMBER of unhoused people
What is Nigeria?
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?
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?
This is the reason women in Brazil are less likely to make their homelessness 'official'
What is fear of losing custody of their children?
In November 2023, this many people stayed in NYC's main municipal shelter system.
What is 92,879?
This racial group experiences homelessness at the highest rate in the United States.
What is Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders?
The Right to Shelter Mandate was established in this year
What is 1981?
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?
This is the average life expectancy for women who are sleeping rough in England and Wales
What is 41?
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?
The country's oldest advocacy and direct service organization.
What is the Coalition for the Homeless?
This percentage of the US jail population reported an episode of homelessness in the year before they were incarcerated.
What is 15%?
This percentage of non-binary people experience unsheltered homelessness
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?