At the end of September, former Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Lilliam Barrios - Paoli left the administration after a wave of increasing public pressure on the de Blasio administration to address what many people perceived as an inexorably growing number of homeless people in New York City, both in shelters and on the streets. (politico.com)
More police officers have been sent into the New York City subway to address the large number of homeless people sleeping on trains during cold winter nights, the police said. (nystateofpolitics.com)
The task force, chaired by city Human Resources Administration commissioner Steve Banks, Housing Preservation and Development commissioner Vicki Been and Laura Mascuch, executive director of the Supportive Housing Network of New York, will help the city expedite the creation of the new housing units, de Blasio said, as it faces high numbers of homeless people living in city shelters and on the streets. (politico.com)