He stood mere ft from de Blasio, whose Metropolis Corridor colleague was waving his arms frantically to level out that the mayor of New York Metropolis was proper behind him.
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Barrios-Paoli will be taking an unpaid position as chairwoman of the Board for the Health and Hospitals Corporation.
When Lehrer played a clip of Giuliani telling NBC New York last month that homeless people were “chased out of the city” when he was mayor, de Blasio responded: “We don’t chase human beings who are in crisis”.
Her appointment in 2014 was hailed by advocates who have called for a greater Latino presence in city government. Indeed, NYC rents have increased faster than inflation, and median rents shot up 3.4 percent over a three year period.
“Yes, there is something real going on here”, he said of the homelessness crisis, adding,”It is much more an economic problem than it’s being acknowledged to be”. He also said that since last fall, almost 15,000 people have moved out of shelters, and prevention programs have helped more than 20,000 keep their homes.
Barrios-Paoli had been commissioner of aging under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and had, along with de Blasio, promised to change the city’s approach to homelessness.
“You’ve got to be able to talk to New Yorkers, and they have to be New Yorkers beyond a certain segment of the population”, reached by the public radio and hip-hop stations, she said.
De Blasio, who not often discusses his mother and father, candidly revealed Sunday that his love of the sport was pressured to develop “outdoors of my household dynamic”.
Mr.de Blasio highlighted that new legal precedent since Mr. Giuliani’s administration has reduced the ability of law enforcement to arrest and detain people sleeping in the streets or loitering in parks. “That’s not a serious look at how to solve the problem”. “I think we have to be very blunt about this”.
“It’s ridiculous”, he spat as the music grew more forceful.
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Lehrer asked de Blasio whether he was cracking down on panhandling in Times Square and other signs of supposed disorder “because as a progressive mayor you can’t afford a perception of going back to the bad old days”.
