It is legal for police to ask homeless people to leave a public space because they are homeless?
What is No? Homelessness is a protected class in NYC.
100
This is one of the three main causes of homelessness.
What is
-Unemployment
-parents, friends, and relatives unwilling to accommodate them
-mental health problems
100
This race is most likely to experience homelessness.
What is African Americans?
100
It is a misdemeanor to do this in churches in NYC. (This is a bizzare one)
What is fart?
100
This is the room on the Columbia University Medical Campus where medical dissections used to occur. Many public health classes are now held here.
What is the A7 amphitheater?
200
This politician campaigned to have homeless disabled veterans banned from working as vendors outside of his luxury properties.
Who is Donald Trump.
200
This is one of the three main causes of teen homelessness
What is
- Abuse?
- Sexual orientation?
- Neglect?
200
True or false, single homeless adults are more likely to be female than male
What is False?
200
There are 20,000 of these buried in Washington Square Park.
What are dead bodies?
200
This is the location of the nearest men's shelter, which serves mentally ill and chemically addicted men.
What is across the street? (The armory)
300
This SMS faculty member wrote the seminal book "Reckioning with Homelessness" about the city's homelessness crisis in the 1980's.
Who is Kim Hopper?
300
This is the most common mental illness found in the homeless.
What is Schizophrenia?
300
This segment is the fastest growing segments of the homeless population.
What is families with children?
300
This is the number of trees it takes to print a Sunday edition of the New York Times.
What is 75,000?
300
This is what the Allan Rosenfield Building was previously used for before it became home to public health students and faculty.
What is a psychiatric facility?
400
This former city mayor's solution to the increase in the homelessness population was: "chasing 'em, chasing 'em, chasing 'em out of the city"
Who is Rudy Guliani?
400
This is the age group in which homelessness is commonly to be found.
What is adults over the age of 24?
400
This director, most famous for the film "Do the Right Thing", is a vocal opponent of gentrification in Brooklyn, which he describes as "Columbusing" and "bogarting."
Who is Spike Lee?
400
This genius's eyeballs are stored in a safety deposit box in NYC.
Who is Albert Einstein?
400
This former first daughter attended the Mailman School of Public Health and is now an adjunct professor.
Who is Chelsea Clinton?
500
This is the number of people sleeping in New York City shelters each night.
What is 60000?
(thousands more sleep on the streets, but there is no accurate estimate)
500
This is the primary cause of homelessness in New York.
What is lack of affordable housing?
500
This pop singer, best known for "Girls just wanna have fun", founded a nonprofit to help LGBT homeless youth
Who is Cyndi Lauper?
500
$120 million in revenue for the city of New York is made up of 7,000 parking tickets a day issued to these people.
What is UPS, FedEx, and other commercial delivery companies?
500
This president was Columbia’s 13th president but resigned in 1953 when he was elected president of the United States.