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With the tourism industry still struggling and many people working remotely, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and lawmakers raised the prospect of converting distressed hotels and office buildings into housing as part of the state budget. Many of those buildings are sitting empty, and there could be an opportunity to turn them into housing as a way to help address New York City’s ongoing housing and homelessness crisis. But no specific proposal made it into the final spending plan. Lawmakers set aside $100 million in funding for building conversions in anticipation of a proposal, but that’s not nearly enough to accomplish what many housing advocates hope for. And time is ticking to get started before the economy rebounds and the buildings and construction are too expensive again to take action.
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WASHINGTON â In a push to combat the effect of the COVID-19 pandemicâs toll on mental health, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer pushed the feds to âquick releaseâ $5 billion dollars he worked to include in the recently-passed American Rescue Plan (ARP) so that the funds can give New Yorkers â and the mental health providers they rely upon â the help theyâre asking for amid rising need.Â
Schumer said that, on average, three times more people than last year at this time report struggling with mental health symptoms like depression, anxiety, drug use and more. Schumer said that one of the biggest problems to beating these feelings and reclaiming mental health depends on timely access to care and overall access to care.
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To borrow a peace slogan from the Vietnam War era, suppose they gave a war and nobody came?
Ira Glasser, who ran the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001, recently summed up the significance of marijuana legalization on American politics:
“Without marijuana prohibition, the government can’t sustain the drug war. Without marijuana, the use of drugs is negligible, and you can’t justify the law-enforcement and prison spending on the other drugs. Their use is vanishingly small. I always thought that if you could cut the marijuana head off the beast, the drug war couldn’t be sustained.”