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Mayor de Blasio participating in the 2020 HOPE survey in January.
The city’s annual count of street homeless New Yorkers recorded a 38 percent decrease this year. But advocates say the city increased enforcement against homeless encampments—known as sweeps or clean-ups—in the days leading up to the 2021 census.
‘As we start to pick up the pieces from the last 15 months, we have the opportunity to build back better. We refuse to go back to normal, because normal was broken. We cannot continue to warehouse people in overcrowded shelters or police people in the streets with no plan to move them into permanent housing.’
The impasse between United Healthcare and Montefiore Hospital has put pressure on consumers and employers to figure out how to maintain access to trusted doctors amid a public-health crisis.
Todavía no está claro cuándo se abrirá a los solicitantes el último programa de ayuda al alquiler COVID-19 del estado, aunque los funcionarios esperan que se ponga en marcha a finales de mayo. Mientras tanto, los defensores de los inquilinos y los grupos de derechos de la vivienda se están preparando para ayudar a miles de inquilinos a recopilar y presentar los formularios necesarios para solicitar la ayuda e inmigrantes indocumentados, pueden acceder a esta ayuda.
A veteran political operator says the 2021 race is about to get very real for New Yorkers—in person and, most crucially, on television.
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