“Last July, the number of homeless families with children in the system surpassed all previous records, and that trend has only accelerated. Last month, a record of 33,887 homeless people slept in the shelters each night, including 14,553 children and 11,612 adults in 7,879 families.
…A New York University study that followed homeless families who entered city shelters in 1988 and a random group of families on public assistance who had not been homeless found that only one factor