Have You Noticed Any Changes since the opening of the homeless shelters?

Man fatally stabbed outside of Bedford Atlantic shelter http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/21-year-old-man-fatally-stabbed-brooklyn-shelter-article-1.3841501

whynot_31 said:

If we still had journalism, I would expect someone to write a piece on how the increasing violence at the Bedford Atlantic shelter can be linked to the downsizing of Rikers along with the diversion of men with severe mental illness from Rikers and the city hospital system.

This sounds like something that Gothamist can explore if/when it comes back.

It appears to me that some who shouldn't be in shelters are and some who should be aren't. Case in point....there was a guy living on the median on Conduit Ave. for most of the winter. He had a tent built and lots of the stuff that he found. He was there through all those nine degree days we had and I was hoping he wouldn't freeze to death. There was no way that you couldn't spot his stuff and I saw him sitting out a few times. The cops didn't get him and all his stuff until last week. There are at least three shelters within three miles of where he was but still city services seemed to totally miss this guy who obviously needed help.

A few of the homeless are unknown to street outreach teams, but most have been offered shelter repeatedly and refused. This assertion is made as a result of knowing that the workers utilize pretty good databases and often take pictures of the homeless they are working with to prove that they were responsive to the 311 calls. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dhs/outreach/street-outreach.page

whynot_31 said:

Man fatally stabbed outside of Bedford Atlantic shelter http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/21-year-old-man-fatally-stabbed-brooklyn-shelter-article-1.3841501

https://www.wnyc.org/story/number-state-parolees-nyc-homeless-shelters-climbing/ Huge numbers of parolees being released directly into NYC's homeless shelters. Recipe for success.

As one system downsizes, the other grows http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2018/02/27/ny1-investigation-more-inmates-released-upstate-prisons-going-into-nyc-shelter-system

Nightly count in December was 63,000. ...The efforts of DeBlasio are not keeping up with the demand. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/population-city-homeless-shelters-hits-record-high-63-495-article-1.3872792

And, has to use hotels because it can't open shelters quickly enough. https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2018/03/16/city-spending-364m-per-year-on-hotels-for-homeless-people-318770