NY Mayor's plans to reduce homeless off pace

Mayor’s Effort to Reduce Homelessness Is Off Pace, Study Says
By FERNANDA SANTOS
Published: August 7, 2008
In 2004, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg began an offensive against homelessness that surprised many advocates because of the ambition of its timetable and goals. The city would slash the number of homeless people by two-thirds in five years by building more homes for the poor, pouring more money into prevention services and trying to ensure that the shelter system would be used only by people who really needed it.

With four years past, the mayor still has a long way to go to meet his goals.

According to a report by the city’s Independent Budget Office, a nonpartisan fiscal monitor, almost as many families were living in city shelters in March — about 8,500 — as when the mayor unveiled his proposal, though investment in prevention services had increased by at least 20 percent.
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