How can NYC’s next mayor bring down homelessness? Housing groups weigh in.

Coalition for the Homeless, VOCAL-NY, Community Service Society and other nonprofit groups have released a blueprint on how the next mayor can solve homelessness. They cite the pressing affordability crisis, the dismally low apartment vacancy rates and surging levels of food insecurity, as well as a 12% increase in the number of non-asylum-seekers in shelters last year.