Thursday night, the same day Mayor Eric Adams unveiled a preliminary budget focused on "fiscal discipline" and two days after Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out her priorities for the year ahead in her State of the State speech, 70,525 people slept in a New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) shelter.
Brooklyn: If the Daily News still ran its beloved and greatly missed Critters column, the paper would be able to inform its readers about safely relocating feral cats.
For low- and moderate-income New Yorkers, finding an affordable living situation can be near impossible in our city, which is facing an affordability and housing supply crisis. Most everyone in New York wants to see their neighbors safely and affordably housed, but soundbites and social media-driven lawmaking is getting in the way of what people need: real policymaking.