just end up you know sleeping on a cardboard box in front of us posting his experience in a blog yousif is been able to collect thousands of dollars in donations for the homeless the reality is a lot of people most people a lot of people one paycheck away from being homeless you know i just. you know i'm just trying to make people aware in the packed city like new york homelessness is no novelty in a city where you can buy a coffee drink for almost eight dollars there are dozens of thousands of people who just don't have that kind of money and to many it's clear that their numbers are bound to keep growing even though the already existing statistics are higher than they have been since the great depression there are more than thirty seven thousand homeless people we have thirty seven thousand people including nearly fifteen thousand children who are homeless each night and new york city a near record number of homeless families nearly ten thousand homeless families in an apocalyptic state of economy all of these people are hoping to be see president . to be able to do. so. as the cries