UWS Open Hearts Applauds CM Levin For Threatening Oversight Into DHS Over Lucerne Move
Pushes Mayor de Blasio to stop the relocation of 190 men to downtown Manhattan
NEW YORK, NY (12/10/2020) (readMedia) The UWS Open Hearts Initiative applauds Councilman Stephen Levin, the NYC Council Chair on the Committee on General Welfare, who sent a letter threatening to exercise oversight over the relocation efforts of shelter residents in the Department of Social Services (DSS) system. He also urged the Mayor to stop the relocation of the 190 homeless men temporarily housed at the Lucerne hotel. Yesterday, the Coalition for the Homeless announced that the number of single adults sleeping each night in DHS shelters, including safe havens and stabilization beds, climbed to more than 20,000 as code blue