Sentences with phrase «homelessness czar»
Ulrich emphasized his support for the controversial stop - and - frisk tactic and blasted de Blasio's handling of the city's mushrooming homeless population, and even called for the firing of his homelessness czar Steve Banks.
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The letters and ensuing statements between Samuel Roberts, commissioner of the state's Office of Temporary Disability Assistance, and Steven Banks, the city's homelessness czar, show just how strained the relationship between the administrations of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have come — and are remarkable in both their tone and their content.
More than two years after de Blasio announced an ambitious plan to create 15,000 supportive - housing apartments, only a few hundred are up and running, the city's homelessness czar said.