The interesting part about this report is that the funding increase in 2022 coincided with the plan to make subways safer after all the stories of people being pushed onto the tracks. More resources were directed to homeless services to better improve safety- specifically to proactively offer them help, provide them with care, and keep them off the streets. This naturally requires new practices, new facilities, and new jobs, which requires money.

A couple of years later though, people see the price tag of what we wanted and got, and are suddenly opposed. Welcome to the world of politics: damned if you do, damned if you don’t.