MOST HOMELESS CHILDREN IN NEW YORK CITY SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION

More than enough Homeless Children than would fill every seat in Madison Square Garden.

ONE IN FIVE CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES.

Since 2008 homelessness has gone up 50%.

NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE   by Andrea Elliot and Photos by Ruth Fremson  "Invisible Child - Girl in the Shadows

"Dasani’s own neighborhood, Fort Greene, is now one of gentrification’s gems. Her family lives in the Auburn Family Residence, a decrepit city-run shelter for the homeless. It is a place where mold creeps up walls and roaches swarm, where feces and vomit plug communal toilets, where sexual predators have roamed and small children stand guard for their single mothers outside filthy showers.
It is no place for children.

Yet Dasani is among 280 children at the shelter. Beyond its walls, she belongs to a vast and invisible tribe of more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression, in the most unequal metropolis in America."