Biggest news year EVER in pictures: DailyMail.com photographers share the best of their photos from 2020
2020 was unlike any other year as America was roiled by a pandemic as well as social and political turmoil
Americans were forced indoors as restaurants, bars, clubs, stores, and offices shut down starting in March
Fatal shootings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor and death of George Floyd sparked a mass movement
DailyMail.com photographers captured turbulent scenes of public rage and despair in a divided country
statistically speaking 0% chance of becoming the president of the united states but he still has a lot of power to make life worse in america s largest city. and he s doing that. nearly a year ago, de blasio was confronted at a ymca by one of new york s 60,000 homeless people. watch this. [indistinct question] why won t you make more housing for homeless new yorkers, mayor bill de blasio? tucker: so recently, a local new york news station track that woman down and it turns out she still homeless but bill de blasio doesn t care. he has other priorities. here s what they are. you can guess. recently he altered the city s a affordable housing lottery. why? to make it easier for foreign
york remains far from eliminating homelessness for everybody else. a problem which in recent years has reached its highest levels since the great depression. about 58,000 new yorkers sleep in homeless shelters on any given night. most of them are families with children. the city says an additional 3,000 sleep on the streets and the subway. although advocates say the number is far greater. reducing homelessness has become a focus for mayor bill de blasio s time in office with the new york post claiming he s ushering in a new era of street homelessness and public violations. the biggest initiative is to build 15,000 more units of supportive housing which is heavily subsidized and comes with a range of social services attached over the course of the next 15 years but it may be too little. homeless advocates say the city needs at least twice that much
this is deep couch sitting. deep couch sitting! and this year, look at whate he put in our driveway. the lexus december to remember sales event is here. lease the 2016 es350 for $349 a month for 36 months and we ll make your first month s payment. see your lexus dealer. three homeless new yorkers say that the police and city sanitation workers stole and illegally destroyed their possessions all while they were trying to stay dry on a rainy night in october. new york civil liberties union which represents the men in a lawsuit against the city released video of the incident. it appears to show officers waking the men up with flashlights followed by sanitation workers in hazmat suits dragging their things into a waiting garbage truck. the city said in a statement to mhp show this incident involved individuals trespassing on school grounds.
services and supporting homeless people, not criminalizing them. homelessness is a tragedy, not a crime. and they have to finally build housing that s affordable for all new yorkers. it s also obviously not just exclusively a new york problem. it is a question facing us across the country. thank you. we re going to talk politics a little later but coming up, why a california woman is suing a hospital just weeks before she s due to give birth. do yous keyboard more than certain family members? is your success due to a filing system only you understand? does printing from your tablet to your wireless printer give you a jolt of confidence? if so, you may be gearcentric. someone who knows that the right office gear helps you do great things. and there s one place that has it all. office depot officemax. gear up for great.