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New York City released Tuesday the blueprint for a plan that aims to tackle the city's affordable housing crisis.

Mayor Eric Adams laid out a blueprint to increase homeownership, reduce street homelessness and improve public housing. But housing groups say his budget, $1 billion short of what he had promised, will not be enough.

As a dozen social workers flooded the South Ferry station at the end of the No. 1 line shortly after midnight Thursday, city Department of Social Services Commissioner Gary Jenkins urged the staff to treat everyone they encounter with “dignity and respect.”

Homeless advocates say the NYC mayor's approach fails to consider the needs of at-risk populations.

Homeless advocates expressed skepticism about how the numbers were characterized.

Advocates say the facility featuring private beds is just the kind of setting unhoused people prefer.

How the hunt to house New York City's homeless turned into a hornet’s nest of bureaucracy

Cops took a train March 18 to reach Anthony Sanchez's hideway in a tunnel off the Delancey-Essex subway station beneath the Lower East Side. There the officers found him amid his home furnished with milk crates, a wheelchair and other loose debris, photos show.

Mayor has touted the opening of hundreds of new shelter beds. But homeless advocates have raised questions about what types of beds they are and whether any of them are actually “new.”

After the recent spate of targeted attacks in New York and Washington, two men experiencing homelessness share their experiences.