Queens Assemblyman's Plan to Address Homeless Crisis Gains Bipartisan Support

A New York Daily News Exclusive

By Kenneth Lovett

A Queens state assemblyman's plan to address the homeless crisis is gaining bipartisan steam in both houses of the Legislature.

Andrew Hevesi has been pushing a plan, first reported by the Daily News in September, that he calls the Home Stability Support program. It’s intended to reduce reliance on homeless shelters by creating a new rent subsidy to keep people in their homes.

This week, Hevesi and 110 of his Democratic and Republican Assembly colleagues — including Dem Majority Leader Joseph Morelle and GOP Minority Leader Brian Kolb — sent a letter to Gov. Cuomo pushing for its enactment.

"The problem of homelessness has reached a critical juncture, and the costs to our communities are unsustainable," Hevesi and his 110 colleagues wrote to Cuomo. “It is time to boldly and adequately attack the preventable causes of record homelessness." 

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)