Cuomo admin on de Blasio homeless request: ‘Too late’

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Sally Goldenberg and.Gloria Pazmino

Bill de Blasio's homeless commissioner, Gilbert Taylor, told the City Council this afternoon that he plans to travel to Albany tomorrow to lobby for permission to use state funds for rental subsidies, even as the Cuomo administration suggested it's too late for significant changes this year.

De Blasio's administration is requesting a change in the budgetary language that prevents New York City from using state funds to subsidize rents for homeless families leaving city-run shelters.

"We just started our conversations in Albany and those conversations are moving forward," Taylor told reporters, after testifying in front of the Council's Committee on General Welfare.

But a spokesperson for Cuomo suggested the proposal was unlikely to advance this year.

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/03/8542543/cuomo-admin-de-blasio-homeless-request-too-late?top-featured-1

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