Posted on October 6, 2018 by Jeffrey C. Mays in The New York Times The New York Times, By Jeffrey C. Mays Nathylin Flowers Adesegun has for the past year worked with Vocal-NY, a nonprofit that helps low-income people, to encourage Mayor Bill de Blasio to designate more apartments specifically for homeless people as part of his plan to create and preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing over a decade. Mr. de Blasio’s plan calls for 5 percent of those units, or 15,000 apartments, to be set aside for homeless people. Vocal-NY wants him to double that. Members of the group have called in during the mayor’s appearances on “The Brian Lehrer Show” on the radio station WNYC, attended his town hall meetings and met with the agency commissioner who handles homelessness, but many still felt they weren’t being heard.
