Posted on October 8, 2014 by Robbie Couch in Huffington Post Huffington Post, By Robbie Couch The number of homeless people living in shelters broke a record this week, according to WNYC, with over 56,000 individuals in need of stable housing. While tens of thousands of New Yorkers are simply trying to survive, however, the news source noted that a record number of billionaires are living in the city that never sleeps: According to the Wealth-X and UBS Billionaire Census 2014 released last month, New York City is home to more than any other city in the world.