Not exact matches
The Seattle - based company
says its own research has highlighted the relationship between
rising rents and increased
homelessness.
Adam Sampson, Shelter's chief executive
said: «With people already overstretching themselves just to get on the housing ladder, this rate
rise will push many over their financial limit, leaving them facing mortgage arrears, repossession and even
homelessness.
A coalition of housing advocates
says Cuomo and state lawmakers haven't done enough to stem a
rising tide of
homelessness in New York.
De Blasio, service providers, those concerned with city expenditures, and many others
say supportive housing is the best way to address
rising homelessness in the city and want the state to devote significant resources to add to the number of units being created.
«I am ready to go head - to - head with Mayor de Blasio and hold him accountable for his lack of leadership and mismanagement of the subway crisis, traffic nightmares,
rise in
homelessness and failing schools,» Malliotakis
said of the news that her opponent dropped out.
De Blasio and city officials have
said broadly that one of the most significant drivers of the increase in
homelessness citywide has been income inequality, writ large: stagnant wages for workers combined with
rising rents over the past decade.
«The highly successful NY / NY III has run out just as
homelessness has
risen to an all - time high, and we need you Mr. Governor and Mr. Mayor to do this together, to recreate the visionary pact Mario Cuomo and David Dinkins first pushed through 25 years ago,» the letter
says.