Submitted by brooklynlad t3_zoks6o in nyc
The_CerealDefense t1_j0nlxdr wrote
Actually this is NOT what the data says. It says in Oct 2022 it hit a record of people in city/state run shelters. Not overall homelessness. It spiked by like 20k people in Sep/Oct 2022 for some reason. That is weird -- looking at all the past data, this has never happened and huge spikes are not common. Which means something is not explained here, something changed on a dime. Not sure what it is but anyone looking at the data would take away that some outside factor changed or methodology changed
https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/facts-about-homelessness/
FantasticKey5486 t1_j0nup0n wrote
Spike could have been to other states sending migrants in buses to NYC perhaps?
BxGyrl416 t1_j0q1h21 wrote
This is exactly it. We received 20-25K.
drpvn t1_j0qrk7b wrote
We haven’t gotten nearly that many from busing.
BxGyrl416 t1_j0r1p7e wrote
“But Mateus, who is among the more than 21,400 migrants and asylum-seekers who have come to New York since the spring, remains barred from employment by federal policy. These people are part of a wave of new arrivals as Republican-led states have sent buses up from the southern border.”
drpvn t1_j0r6et5 wrote
That doesn’t say how many of the 21k were bused from other cities.
This is from September, but note the large gap between the reported total number of migrants who had arrived in NYC (11k) and those who were bused from Texas (2.5k).
The point being, most of the migrants who have come to NYC this year were not bused from Texas. They came here through other paths.
Edit: I enjoy when people downvote me because they don’t like a fact I referenced.
Grass8989 t1_j0rmhjl wrote
For some reason everyone is downvoting facts, pretty wild.
ThePillsburyPlougher t1_j0shjco wrote
Why are you focusing on Texas specifically though?
drpvn t1_j0sl7cv wrote
My understanding is that Texas sent the most migrants by a huge margin. The other states don’t amount to much in total. I could have said “other states” and the point would still be true—and the point is that shitty reporting appears to have created a widespread belief that all (or even most) of the migrants that have come to NYC were sent by red state governors. I’ve seen no evidence in any data that that’s true, and the data I’ve seen about how many Texas sent makes clear that it’s not true.
The_CerealDefense t1_j0nwcwp wrote
Don’t know. Maybe. But I’d hesitate to make assumption due to it being so unusual and me not knowing the methodology
FantasticKey5486 t1_j0o0cwo wrote
Yeah... correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation etc!
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BxGyrl416 t1_j0q1dx8 wrote
September and October is around the time we received 20,000+ migrants.
drpvn t1_j0r8p0h wrote
Migrants have been arriving steadily since May. By September about 11k had already arrived.
_allycat t1_j13e5p9 wrote
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>[...]64,077 individuals stayed in a shelter administered by DHS on Oct. 10, data tracked daily by City Limits shows. That’s up from 46,591 on Jan. 2, before a growing number of recently arrived immigrants made their way to New York City from the southern border as statewide eviction protections ended and average rents continued to skyrocket.
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>“The increase in the shelter census is fueled by rising numbers of people entering the system, by bureaucratic bottlenecks precluding residents from transitioning into permanent and safe affordable housing quickly,” the two organizations said. ['Legal Aid Society' and 'Coalition for the Homeless']
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