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EXCLUSIVE: New York 2015 - FOUR THOUSAND sleeping on the streets, 80 homeless encampments in the city and beggars making $75 a day as arrests for panhandling and street drinking plunge
Shekhar Bhatia For Dailymail.com
Setp. 4, 2015
- Police in city say up to 4,000 people are sleeping on the streets and that there are at least 80 homeless encampments - a quarter of them so permanent they have furniture
- Ultra-liberal mayor Bill de Blasio under fire from his tough predecessor Rudolph Giuliani for failing to clean up city's problem
- Daily Mail Online has spoken to homeless beggars who say they can make $70 a day - as much as an eight-hour day on city's minimum wage
- Arrests for crimes like aggressive panhandling, exposure and public urination have collapsed
- Many homeless are taking cheap drugs, with heroin going for just $10 a bag and one expert saying: 'There is an epidemic.'