Homelessness is at a file excessive in New York Metropolis with shelter occupancy rising even because the migrant inhabitants is lowering, in keeping with the newest “Mayor’s Management Report” that measures the efficiency of metropolis companies in delivering companies.
Greater than 87,000 people resided within the Division of Homeless Providers system per day on common within the July to October 2024 interval overlaying the beginning of fiscal yr 2025, in keeping with the 458-page doc launched Thursday. In fiscal yr 2022, that quantity was round 46,000.
A DHS spokeswoman mentioned the excessive variety of shelter occupants is because of the migrant disaster and that households with kids, together with migrants, are staying in shelters longer than common over the identical time interval final yr. The town has additionally shuttered some emergency asylum seeker shelters, with the DHS system absorbing remaining residents.
The excessive stage of homeless shelter occupants comes regardless of an uptick in individuals leaving shelters for everlasting housing, with practically 30% extra households transferring out of shelters to properties of their very own, and regardless of fewer individuals, particularly migrants, coming into the shelter system than final yr.
The report, which covers practically 50 municipal companies and organizations that report back to Mayor Adams — together with the NYPD, FDNY, Division of Sanitation, Division of Correction and even Parks and Recreation — is launched twice a yr and offers a snapshot of how Metropolis Corridor is doing in comparison with its targets. The following report will embody all the July 2024 to June 2025 fiscal yr.
“Our administration is focused on making New York City the best place to raise a family. Whether it is driving down crime, connecting more people to SNAP and low-cost child care, winning the war on rats, or building housing at record levels, we are delivering on that mission and making our city safer and more affordable for working-class New Yorkers,” Adams mentioned in a press release.
Within the class of public security — an enormous precedence for the mayor — main felony crime fell by 2% total, with robberies, burglaries and grand larceny down however murders and felony assaults up. Stories of rape elevated by practically 19%, the report mentioned.
Hate crimes elevated by 11%, which the report mentioned was pushed by “religiously motivated incidents.”
Youth felony arrests jumped 16% for the reason that similar time-frame final yr — with robberies and burglaries growing and grand larceny, which incorporates automotive theft, down from final yr by 23%.
NYPD emergency response instances to get to those crimes barely improved from final fiscal yr, with the police division taking a mean of quarter-hour and 49 seconds to reply, in comparison with over 16 minutes in final yr’s window.
Underneath the Adams administration, the Rikers inhabitants has continued swelling, with the Division of Correction reporting it had 8,135 new inmates come into the town jail system between July and October 2024. That’s up from the 7,589 over the identical span in 2023.
The streets had been barely safer for motorists and pedestrians within the first a part of fiscal yr 2025 in comparison with the identical interval final yr, with visitors fatalities dropping by greater than 30%, largely because of fewer deaths within the “motorized two-wheeled vehicles” class that features scooters and e-bikes. Nevertheless, there have been three extra conventional bicyclist deaths in that interval.
Throughout his marketing campaign Adams promised to construct dozens of latest bus routes. Nevertheless, the report exhibits the town created lower than a mile of latest bus lanes — 0.9 — from July via October 2024, in comparison with 8.6 miles within the earlier time-frame.
The report blamed “resource restraints related to Citywide budgetary limitations affected planned production targets” for why that quantity is so low.
The mayor’s promise to construct 300 miles of motorcycle lanes can be falling brief, with simply 9 miles constructed throughout that point in 2024, in comparison with 23 miles in 2023.
Initially Revealed: January 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM EST
