Murray Hill has a quality of life problem. After growing worried about the neighborhood’s homeless population, residents started a Facebook group to share photos and report incidents they thought might affect public safety or general quality of life. The Village Voice’s Madison Margolin recounts how one of the group’s admins decided to go a step further and built an iOS app called NYC Map the Homeless, making it possible for residents to upload photos of homeless people tied to specific locations and tagged with labels such as “encampment,” “aggressive panhandling,” “NeedsMedicalAid,” and “Threat.”

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