N.Y.C. Lawmakers Take Dramatic Step to Stem Homelessness
The New York Times
The City Council voted overwhelmingly to increase a housing subsidy in hopes of making thousands of apartments affordable to people who are homeless or facing eviction.
For nearly a decade, New York City has struggled to help homeless people find apartments of their own, as rents hovered in the stratosphere and the number of people stuck in shelters surged past 60,000. So on Thursday, the City Council took its most dramatic step in years to address the city’s affordable housing crisis, voting overwhelmingly to expand a subsidy program in ways that could make apartments affordable to tens of thousands of people who are homeless or threatened with eviction. “It is my hope that this will give people an opportunity to have a solid roof over their heads for them and their families,” City Councilman Stephen Levin, the bill’s main sponsor, said during the vote, adding that it would be “an important bill in the lives of many New Yorkers.”
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