Posted on August 25, 2014 by Zafirah Mohamed Zein in Inter Press Service Inter Press Service, By Zafirah Mohamed Zein While accurate figures for New York’s unsheltered homeless are hard to come by, the thousands sleeping on the streets are in addition to the 53,615 people – a record-breaking figure not seen since the Great Depression – who enrolled in the city’s shelter system in January this year. Yankee Stadium would not be able to seat all of them.
