«It's about people who were homeless, who were homeless with their children and worked hard and got out of shelter, and are here with us at this wonderful,
permanent supportive housing building.»
Not exact matches
The borough president also discussed the need to
build more affordable and
permanent supportive housing as a means to prevent homelessness, and threw his support behind Queens Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi's Home Stability Support plan, which would give rent subsidies to those in danger of losing their homes.
He put forward a $ 20 billion plan, supplemented with money made from state court settlements, to
build 100,000 units of
permanent housing and 20,000
supportive housing units over the next decade and a half.
Goynes found a
permanent home in 2007 — a small room in a
building on East 28th Street run by the nonprofit
supportive -
housing provider now known as Breaking Ground.