By Jonathan Lemire
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday
announced a massive $2.6 billion housing investment to help New York
City's homeless, declaring that the city would not wait for New York
state's help in combating a growing crisis that has dominated headlines
and damaged the mayor's poll numbers.
Over the next 15
years, the city will pay for the creation of 15,000 "supportive housing"
units, apartments that will be paired with on-site social services to
help domestic abuse victims, veterans, drug addicts and those living on
the street. Currently, there are nearly 58,000 people in city shelters
and a few thousand more estimated to be living on the streets of the
nation's largest city.
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Source: NBC News
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