By Nikita Stewart, Ford Fessenden and Tim Wallace
With the number of homeless people in New York City reaching an all-time high,
Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a five-year plan in February to reduce
homelessness and provide better services by opening 90 new shelters and
expanding 30 existing ones. As the de Blasio administration rolls out
the plan, where the city decides to put the additional shelters has
grown contentious.
The city’s primary shelter system is a patchwork
of dormitories, family shelters, commercial hotel rooms and apartments
in private buildings known as cluster apartments. Under the mayor’s
plan, new and expanded shelters are to replace the hotel rooms and
apartments that are scattered throughout 360 different sites across the
city.
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Source: The New York Times (via The Empire Report)
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