In more bad news on the city’s homeless crisis, latest stats show the city is spending dramatically more to house New Yorkers in shelters, and they’re spending more time in them.
The Mayor’s Management Report — an annual report card for city agencies — shows the average cost of housing an adult homeless person in the system rose to $94.57 a day in fiscal year 2016, which ended in July.
That’s up from $78.80 in 2015.
Families cost even more, going from $105.37 a day last year to $120.22, the report found.
Meanwhile, the length of stay rose to 563 days for adult families, up from 534.
Officials said the cost increases were due to security upgrades and increased services, and the added time people are staying shows the need for more supportive housing, which the mayor has pledged in his most recent budget.
Other parts of the Mayor’s Management Report show a mix of pluses and minuses for the city.
The murder rate is low, but major felonies — including rape, robbery and serious assaults — increased by nearly 2%, while crime in housing developments and in the transit system were up, 7% and 10% respectively.
The number of new HIV diagnoses went down from 2,718 to 2,449, but at the same time syphilis cases were up from 1,315 to 1,700.
Overall, the mayor’s office said the city is in good shape, pointing to stats that show well over half — 59% — of the indicators show improved or stable performance.
The report shows more than 2,000 metrics from city agencies, and is a “vital instrument of public accountability, transparency, and data-driven performance management,” said Mindy Tarlow, director of the Mayor’s Office of Operations.
