• In recent years, homelessness in New York City has reached the highest levels since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

• In April 2015, there were 59,285 homeless people, including 14,132 homeless families with 24,267 homeless children, sleeping each night in the New York City municipal shelter system.  

• Over the course of the last City fiscal year (FY 2014), more than 116,000 different homeless men, women, and children sleep in the New York City municipal shelter system.  

• The number of homeless New Yorkers sleeping each night in municipal shelters is now 72 percent higher than it was ten years ago.

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At our Times Square Homeless Center Project FIND:

• Provides a safe space where homeless seniors can shower, get clean clothes and a meal
• Connects them with a social worker who can obtain the full spectrum of entitlements for which they are eligible
• Assesses their need for medical and mental health services with an onsite clinic
• Reconnect homeless seniors with supportive networks of family and friends
• Work with them to determine the most appropriate housing options and support them as they make the transition off life on the streets

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Since modern homelessness began more than thirty years ago, research and experience have overwhelmingly shown that investments in permanent housing are extraordinarily effective in reducing homelessness — as well as being cost-effective.

Many of the most successful housing-based policies designed to address the homelessness crisis — in particular, permanent supportive housing for individuals living with disabilities and other special needs — were pioneered in New York City and have been replicated throughout the country. 

Project FIND provides a gateway for the homeless elderly to much needed treatment and to transitioning from life on the streets to more stable housing

Our Homeless In-Reach program works to help the long-term street homeless into an environment where they can get medical and psychiatric care and make the transition to supportive housing.