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Complaints about homeless skyrocket in NYC

Complaints about homeless on the street have skyrocketed since Mayor de Blasio came into office — with calls to the 311 hot line jumping 127 percent, the most recent stats reveal.

Overall complaints stood at 29,159 in 2015, compared with 12,848 in 2013, the last year Mayor Mike Bloomberg was in office.

Calls over street encampments — which de Blasio recently boasted had been all but eliminated — have also skyrocketed since 2014, with 311 calls on the subject jumping 93 percent, from 3,045 in 2013 to 5,877 in 2015, city data reveal.

Just last week, de Blasio referred to the encampment problem as resolved.

“You heard about the fact that there were as many as 30 encampments, again, tolerated for years. We have taken those down,” he said at a Jan. 4 press conference. “They will not come back.”

The increases come less than a month after de Blasio launched his HomeStat initiative, which critics blasted as incomplete, claiming that it ignores one of the reasons for the spike — dangerous shelters that make living on the street a better option.

“He still isn’t doing enough,” said state Sen. Tony Avella (D-Queens). “You have to clean up the shelter system first . . . The shelters are not safe. They get robbed. They get attacked.”

The number of complaints from homeless people has also steadily increased. In 2013, the number of 311 complaints about shelter conditions stood at 8,629, city records revealed. In 2014, it rose to 9,077. And last year, it shot up to 12,319.

“The city has been reacting to, not anticipating, the problem of homelessness,” said city Comptroller Scott Stringer. “Every data point we have seen shows a managerial and operational system that is in dire need of repair right now.”

The administration said the increase is a sign that HomeStat is working.

“We have been consistently encouraging New Yorkers to call 311, so the increase in 311 contacts related to homelessness is a promising sign,” said de Blasio spokeswoman Karen Hinton.

Additional reporting by Khristina Narizhnaya