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Unsheltered Homeless Youth Population Doubled, Annual City Report Finds
A count conducted last January found the number of youth sleeping in drop-in centers, places of worship, subways, fast food joints and other crash spots spiked as migrant arrivals grew. This article originally apeared in The City. By Gwynne Hogan , and Katie Honan Follow @x NEW YORK - An annual count of homeless youths conducted last January found the highest number of unsheltered young people in at least a decade, more than double the number last year. The report resulting from the survey conducted by the city’s Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD), and released this week, counted 418 young people between the ages of 14 and 24 sleeping in houses of worship, overnight drop in centers, the subways, fast food restaurants and other tenuous situations during a four-day period in January. That’s up from 147 last year, nearly double the number of homeless youth the count found last year. ...
