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During the pandemic, sparse crowds on transit systems gave way to uncivil behavior and crime. Today, debates are breaking out around the best policy to fix the problem while figuring out the role of law enforcement.
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Despite the progress, some homeless advocates said the city still isn’t working fast enough to get people into supportive housing.
Advocates said the surge could be related to the city’s closure of hotels it used as an alternative to crowded dormitory shelters during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The significance of the new numbers can be hard to discern, because city officials used different methods to tally a subpopulation during the pandemic.
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In each year’s survey, outreach workers and volunteers take a rough census of the number of people without homes. This year’s survey was conducted the night of Jan. 25.