{"id":303950,"date":"2026-07-23T18:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303950\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:15:08","slug":"comptroller-report-homelessness-up-in-parts-of-upstate-n-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303950\/","title":{"rendered":"Comptroller report: Homelessness up in parts of upstate N.Y."},"content":{"rendered":"

Many upstate New York communities saw increases in the homelessness population in the past year while homelessness statewide declined, according to an analysis released Thursday<\/a> by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says the statewide homeless population declined by nearly 8% between January 2024 and January 2025, largely driven by declines in New York City. This comes after DiNapoli\u2019s office reported homelessness more than doubled between January 2022 and January 2024.<\/a><\/p>\n

In upstate areas, homelessness increased, DiNapoli said. The areas that saw the largest increase included Columbia and Greene counties, which saw a 59% jump; the city of Troy and Rensselaer County with a 55% jump; and the city and county of Schenectady with a 42% jump.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the number of homeless declined, there\u2019s a lot of work left to do,\u201d DiNapoli said in a statement. \u201cThe problem is widespread and it is not confined to major cities. In particular, the public, private and nonprofit sectors need to work together to address the crisis of so many children experiencing homelessness in New York.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comptroller\u2019s report said children continue to make up a disproportionate share of the homeless population, at 32%, which is double the share in the rest of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many upstate New York communities saw increases in the homelessness population in the past year while homelessness statewide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[257,270,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87],"class_list":["post-303950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-central-ny","tag-luke-parsnow","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}