Volunteers of America, which has offices at LaGuardia and JFK, counted a monthly average of 45 chronic homeless people at LaGuardia in 2014, an 80 percent increase over the average month in 2011. On the coldest nights, as many as 50 took refuge at LaGuardia in East Elmhurst, Queens. JFK’s chronic homeless increased to an average of 33 per month, double the number in 2011.

 

“There’s some new faces,” said Sharan Kaur, an assistant general manager at Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, who’s worked at LaGuardia for five years.

 

Conditions at the airports reflect the growth of homelessness in the most populous U.S. city. Every night, more than 60,000 people—almost 26,000 of them children—sleep in shelters, an increase of about 20,000 in three years,according to the Coalition for the Homeless, a New York-based advocacy group.

 

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