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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_iyi1scv wrote

Reply to comment by SuperTeamRyan in New York’s Plan to Address Crisis of Mentally Ill Faces High Hurdles by CactusBoyScout

Math isn’t nearly that clean. There’s actually just over 60,000 folks in shelters and not everyone “in a shelter” is accounted for or not a potential psych case. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number were talking about is closer to 3-4k for the most problematic folks, but that’s still way more than we have the resources / beds to house. As I mentioned there aren’t enough beds as is for even normal psych cases

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SuperTeamRyan t1_iyi6t56 wrote

Do you have any sources for the estimated street homeless population?

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ThreeLittlePuigs t1_iyi9tg5 wrote

There’s different folks that do counts. Coalition for the homeless does one, as does Downtown Gooddard. Census does one as well

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