Posted on November 18, 2015 by The Associated Press in The New York Times The New York Times, By The Associated Press Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday announced a massive $2.6 billion housing investment to help New York City’s homeless, declaring that the city would not wait for New York state’s help in combating a growing crisis that has dominated headlines and damaged the mayor’s poll numbers. Over the next 15 years, the city will pay for the creation of 15,000 “supportive housing” units, apartments that will be paired with on-site social services to help domestic abuse victims, veterans, drug addicts and those living on the street. Currently, there are nearly 58,000 people in city shelters and a few thousand more estimated to be living on the streets of the nation’s largest city.
