NYC, Washington homeless murders jolt advocates. What needs to change?

• A minimum of 5 homeless males have been shot, two fatally, in a current string of associated assaults in opposition to homeless males in New York Metropolis and Washington, D.C.
• Greater than 326,000 folks skilled sheltered homelessness within the U.S. on a single night time in 2021, in keeping with the Division of Housing and City Improvement.
• The HUD on Monday introduced $2.6 billion in awards for about 7,000 native homeless housing and repair applications throughout the U.S.

NEW YORK — 4 males experiencing homelessness have been crushed to dying by one other homeless man as they slept on a road in 2019.

Final 12 months, a homeless man with a historical past of psychiatric issues stabbed 4 folks sleeping within the subway, killing two.

And, now, a minimum of 5 homeless males have been shot, two fatally, in a sequence of current assaults in New York and Washington, D.C.