In accordance with the Local Law No. 7 of 2012, the Annual Report on Deaths Among Persons Experiencing Homelessness is submitted on behalf of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Homeless Services.
This report is prepared and submitted pursuant to Local Law 63, amending the Administrative Code of the City of New York to track and report deaths of homeless persons in the City of New York. This report summarizes homeless deaths during the annual reporting period for July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012.
Prepared and submitted pursuant to Local Law 7 (LL7), which was originally named and passed as Local Law 63 (LL63) by the New York City Council in 2005 before being replaced in 2012 with LL7, requiring the City of New York to track and report deaths of persons experiencing homelessness.
From 2012 to 2015, injury was the cause of 10% of deaths among infants younger than 1 year old in NYC; among these, 75% were sleep-related. This report highlights the prevalence of unsafe sleep environmental risk factors.