“Does somebody believe exposing people outside and being outside in a risky situation is more humane?”
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“That’s another thing that I did not think was being done properly under the previous administration”, said the mayor.
He said there should be a focus on quality of life improvements.
“Do you know when people lived on the streets and didn’t use bathrooms inside?”
The repairs at Queensbridge, which covers 26 buildings near the Queensboro Bridge, will be funded with $60million from the city and $27 million from the federal government.
The homeless numbers during the first 18 months of de Blasio administration have not improved.
He insisted that most of those new developments would be designated affordable housing. City & State also has a good opinion piece about the history of how NYC and New York State have worked together to battle the city’s homelessness.
Pataki’s remarks come days after his New York City counterpart, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, complained that the homeless problem is getting worse in the Big Apple.
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“We just a week ago had a stabbing right by Bryant Park of a mentally ill person, of a tourist”.
