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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.
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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.