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This Thursday, homeless New Yorkers will ask questions directly of New York City mayoral candidates during a virtual forum. The historic event’s conception and organization was led in part by a New Yorker who is homeless himself – Shams DaBaron, an advocate for the city’s homeless and a resident at the Lucerne, an Upper West Side hotel operating as a shelter, who developed the event in partnership with activist groups including the UWS Open Hearts Initiative.
Thursday’s forum marks the culmination of a recent foray into activism for DaBaron, who spent last fall organizing and speaking at rallies alongside locals and his fellow residents to successfully block New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to move its occupants elsewhere.