NYC Hope Count – Bay Ridge Didn’t Make the Cut
Every year, NYC does a Hope Count event.
HOPE stands for Homeless Outreach Population Estimate. The event involves volunteers counting homeless people in NYC.
The volunteers don’t bring the homeless people sandwiches, or even a cup of coffee. They just count them.
This year, it’s called Hope 2023 (they dropped the word Count). HOPE will happen on Tuesday, January 24th from 10:00 pm. – 4:00 am.
It’s strange that there are no HOPE volunteer sites in Bay Ridge Ridge, Dyker Heights or Sunset Park in 2023! See map below (from their website here)
The homeless on the R train can’t get any help from Brannan or Gounardes, but now someone wants to count them! (Info)
Year after year, the counting happens, and NYC releases a message that says there are less homeless on NYC streets!
Last year, they didn’t use any volunteers due to Covid-19 and there were over 1000 more homeless people on the street than 2021, but they still wanted to write the words: “less homeless people than 2020.”
Who Cares if it is less than 2020? There are over a thousand more people living on the streets of NYC!
In past years. we have seen them give out t-shirts to the volunteers, as if counting the homeless in Brooklyn was like visiting a tourist attraction and they needed a t-shirt to remember the event.
Each year, they designed a logo!
Ya gotta love the event organizer who spent money like water doing a double-sided print on the shirt and even sleeve printing on the shirts’ sleeve (which cost a lot more than just a front print).
This hopeless count is a waste of time. House five homeless people instead of counting thousands of people you never intend to help, NYC.
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Hugs,
marlene
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