Experts Weigh in on Bill de Blasio

The homeless crisis Mayor de Blasio inherited – many years in the making – has been exacerbated by skyrocketing housing costs and stagnant wages for low-income families. The Mayor did well in reversing the failed approach of his predecessor by increasing eviction prevention and giving homeless New Yorkers access to permanent housing. As a result, he stemmed the runaway increases in NYC’s shelter population – moving 22,000 people out of costly shelters and into apartments of their own since mid-2014. Moreover, the Mayor’s historic $2.6 billion commitment to fund 15,000 units of permanent supportive housing will give our homeless neighbors struggling with mental illness and other disabilities a proven pathway off the streets.