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A report says migrant arrivals were responsible for a 147% increase in entries to shelters housing families with children. NYC sees spike in homeless population due to influx of migrants Skip to ...
(The Center Square) — New York's population could decline by more than 2 million people over the next 25 years as fewer people are born in the state and more people move out, according to a new ...
The New York City migrant housing crisis is a migrant crisis exacerbated by the existing New York City housing shortage, that began in April 2022. It has been driven by the Venezuelan refugee crisis, and to a lesser extent that from Haiti and other countries. [1] New York City is a sanctuary city.
The Chinese immigrant population in New York City grew from 261,500 foreign-born individuals in 2000 to 350,000 in 2011, representing a more than 33% growth of that demographic. [31] Chinese immigrants represented 12,000 of the country's asylum requests in fiscal year 2013, of which 4,000 applied for asylum to the New York-area asylum office.
The Jewish population in New York City exploded from 80,000 Jews in 1880 to 1.5 million in 1920, as Jews from Eastern Europe fled pogroms and discrimination. [100] The Jewish population peaked at 2.2 million in 1940. A large portion of the population suburbanized after World War II, [94] as a part of the larger trend of White flight.
In age demographics: 6.5% of New York's population were under 5 years of age, 24.7% under 18, and 12.9% were 65 or older. Females made up 51.8% of the population. New York state has a fluctuating population growth rate, it has experienced some shrinkage in the 1970s and 1980s, but milder growth in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century.
USAID requires NGOs to sign a document renouncing terrorism, as a condition of funding. Issam Abdul Rahman, media coordinator for the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations' Network, a body representing 135 NGOs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, said his organization "takes issue with politically conditioned funding".
Jobs returned to downtown centers and demand for housing in New York boomed. [14] To absorb this demand, New York produced 2.2 units per job from 2001 to 2008. However, from 2009 to 2018 the City built just 0.5 units per job as land use regulation, historical preservation, and political opposition ground housing production to a halt. [15]