Bay Ridge activist urges more help for city’s homeless
Liam McCabe to take part in HOPE count on Jan. 23
A Bay Ridge political activist whose homeless father died 12 years ago is urging residents to volunteer to help count the number of people living on the streets as part of a citywide project.
Liam McCabe is asking Brooklyn residents — particularly those in his Bay Ridge neighborhood — to volunteer to take part in the Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE), an annual project supervised by the New York City Department of Homeless Services in which teams of volunteers fan out all over the streets and subways to count the number of homeless people.
New York City is mandated by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to conduct a count of the number of homeless people once a year. The 2016 HOPE Count determined that 2,794 people were living on the streets and in the subways.