The de Blasio administration has dramatically increased funding for services for unsheltered homeless people, increasing funding by 250 percent since 2013 according to DHS figures, which allowed the contracted providers to more than double their outreach staff to 387, and has added 250 new Safe
Haven shelter beds, which are designed for unsheltered homeless people, since December 2015.
Another problem Taylor cited is a waiting list for
beds at «safe
havens,» a kind of supportive housing that many adult homeless people favor — they don't have the kinds of curfews or mandates for drug or alcohol rehabilitation that some
shelters require.