David Brand
Eric Adams announced his plan to convert struggling hotels into homeless housing on Monday in Brooklyn.
“The solution to homelessness is housing,” one stakeholder said. “But the city agency charged with solving homelessness has no jurisdiction over housing, so we are setting them an impossible task.”
‘While the HIV/AIDS epidemic may not look like it did 30 years ago, little has changed in recent years to eradicate the virus. We are still fighting the same battle to make sure our solutions to end the epidemic are inclusive of people who use drugs.’
So far, 85 undocumented applicants have been approved to receive the city and state joint relief assistance funds; another 33,000 survivors have been approved for FEMA’s Individual Assistance Program as of Nov. 21. Both relief programs are set to close on Dec. 6.
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