Protest continues in Sheepshead Bay over planned homeless shelter after night of tensions and arrests
The demonstration follows two months of ongoing opposition to the city鈥檚 plan to turn the empty lot into a transitional housing facility for families.
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Between 2022 and 2024, the U.S. saw a 43% rise in 鈥渟heltered homelessness鈥 -- staying in some sort of emergency shelter, as opposed to living on the street. That is shocking enough on its own, but according to a new study, a contemporaneous surge in asylum seekers accounted for 60% of that increase.
