Homelessness is a nationwide problem affecting thousands of people each year. All 50 states inhabit thousands of homeless people and the amount is steadily increasing. This is due to the direct relationship between homelessness and poverty. With the recession that the country faces and the amount of people becoming unemployed there is no telling how many people will be fortunate enough to remain from being homeless. It has been reported by the Coalition of the Homeless that number of homeless people in New York City has risen by nearly 6 percent since 2007. During the city’s 2007 Fiscal Year, 102,187 different New Yorkers were reported to have slept in homeless shelters. "At the same time that the use of homeless shelters was increasing significantly, the homeless living on the streets declined."(Dunkel) Vera Institute did a study that's results shot that about 50 percent of the homeless families in shelters have either a formal or informal eviction in their recent history.
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