Homelessness In New York City

New York City has an approximate of over 7.5 million people living there (cleaningservicenewyorkcity.com). An estimate of thirty-three percent of the people who live in New York City is at or below the line of poverty (cleaningservicenewyorkcity.com). As in February, 2017, about 16,188 homeless families with 20,100 homeless children had slept in shelters in New York City (coalitionforthehomeless.org). Additionally, to the homeless families and children, there will be a following research based on the amount of homeless children and families there are in New York City, obstacles that families has to face, different ways they try to survive on the streets, and how the city can help them. Matter of fact, in a night of January 2015, there was
In 2014, a reporter stated that forty-nine percent were not allowed to be laying down or sitting in communal places and fifty-one percent were also not allowed to nap in a car (nytimes.com). “ Sadly, poverty has claimed America’s children as its greatest victims” (Nunez 11). Nearly twenty percent of children who settled at a place, who are under the line of penury has expanded very much worldwide. Around 1990s, twenty-five percent of toddlers were poor (Nunez 11). Homeless children from the grade pre-8, that lived in shelter had the greatest amount of absences and transfers in the middle of the year. Nearly thirty-five percent have not been to school for more than nineteen days
It is also very common . Around sixty percent of the young girls has decided to be pregnant only one time (Whitbeck and Hoyt 103). Whitbeck and Hoyt indicates that based on homeless girls in New York, “ Two-thirds (69%) of the young women who became pregnant were aged fifteen years or younger... Among these men... sixty-one percent had been responsible for one pregnancy, twenty-six percent for two pregnancies, and the remaining thirteen percent for three or more pregnancies” (103). The newborn's weight would be way less than other babies because the mother would take less medicine for their health and are most commonly either very skinny or very overweight. Therefore, when the homeless girls stress out, the effect would affect the babies (coalitionforthehomeless.org). In the book of “ Hopes, Dreams & Promise : The Future of Homeless Children in America”, Nunez explains the information that the homeless young woman is facing in New York City:
Today the typical homeless family head-of-household is a young, single woman without a high school diploma or substantial work experience. There is a 50 percent chance that she is currently pregnant. She has most likely experienced substance abuse and is probably the victim of domestic violence and perhaps has lived in foster care as a