Nearly 195,000 people slept in NYC shelters in 2025, the most ever

The number of New Yorkers sleeping in homeless shelters rose 27 percent under Mayor Eric Adams’ four years in office, driven by overcrowded housing conditions and evictions, according to a new report. The Coalition for the Homeless released its annual “State of the Homeless” report, which found that the number of non-migrant New York City [...] The post Nearly 195,000 people slept in NYC shelters in 2025, the most ever first appeared on 6sqft.