- 10,000 families entered the city’s homeless shelter system last year.
- New York City’s poverty rate is growing faster than that of the nation.
- One in three NYC children live in poverty, an 11 percent increase over 2009.
- 43,000 students in New York City schools are without a home of their own (compared with 10,000 in 2008), according to school records.
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