Early Tuesday morning, from midnight to 3:00 am, hundreds of New Yorkers fanned out across the five boroughs as part of Breaking Ground's Hope Count, working to tally the uncountable: the Big Apple's ever-growing, constantly shifting homeless population.
New York is facing its worst homelessness crisis since the Great Depression thanks to the total incompetence and utter failure of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who treats his full-time job as a part-time position.
The statistics are excruciating: An estimated 60,000 people now sleep in New York City shelters on any given night. Untold thousands more sleep on the streets, avoiding city shelters like the plague. They're afraid of being robbed, assaulted, or worse at the poorly managed facilities, an all-too-often occurrence.
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