154,000 New York City Students Were Homeless Last Year, a Record Number NYT | Top Stories By: Troy Closson 20 October 2025 at 20:25 If these pupils made up their own school system, it would be one of the 20 largest districts in the United States. The number includes those who are doubled up in crowded apartments. © Monique Jaques for The New York TimesThe population of homeless students in New York City, which has the nation’s largest school system, has exceeded 100,000 for 10 consecutive years
We Found a Solution to Homelessness. Now the Trump Administration Wants to Throw It Out. NYT | Opinion By: Philip Mangano 20 October 2025 at 17:01 The administration’s plan would defund the very intervention that has ended homelessness for people across the country.