NYCHA to Allocate Approximately 750 Units a Year to Homeless Families
Kim Velsey
Among the cornerstones of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to address the city’s unprecedented homelessness crisis—the number of New Yorkers spending the night in shelters has hovered at 53,000 since January—is the prioritization of NYCHA housing and Section 8 vouchers for homeless families.
But at a city council budget hearing this afternoon, New York City Housing Authority commissioner Shola Olatoye said that the housing authority has identified approximately 3,200 units to be set aside for homeless families over the next four years, a lower percentage of units than were set aside under Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg. The former mayors set aside approximately one-third of total NYCHA units for homeless families before Mr. Bloomberg ended preferential placement and the homeless population boomed.
“Are you setting aside less than under Giuliani?” Councilman Ritchie Torres asked Ms. Olatoye point blank.
“Yes, we are,” she said.
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