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De Blasio still failing with homeless population problem in NYC
By artappraiser on Mon, 04/13/2020 - 1:44am |Where the homeless should go: No one should be on the street or in a congregate shelter with coronavirus raging
By Stephen Levin & Paulette Soltani @ NYDailyNews.com, April 11 Levin represents parts of Brooklyn in the City Council and is chair of the General Welfare Committee. Soltani is the political director at VOCAL-NY.
[....] Right now there are 100,000 empty hotel rooms in New York City that are likely to stay empty for months as tourism has trickled to a near halt. There are tens of thousands more empty hotel and motel rooms across the state.
Thousands of those rooms must be used for front-line emergency workers who need to protect their families from exposure.
But, as of today, only a few hundred rooms are being used to house homeless New Yorkers. In fact, we are hearing of COVID-19 symptomatic patients being discharged from the hospital back into congregate homeless shelters [....]
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https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-where-the-homeless-should-go-20200411-7nyv376hqffwbdxdgcyvr3mlua-story.html
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