Time is right to replace right-to-shelter
Everyone on a barstool has a solution to the homeless crisis, it seems. What we need is an expert — someone with experience on the ground and in City Hall. Mark Hurwitz certainly qualifies. He was a deputy commissioner at the Department of Homeless Services during the Bloomberg administration and has done ride-alongs with social workers trying to coax the street homeless into shelters. In a New York Times op-ed Friday, he pitched an idea we’ve all heard before: Fund permanent housing instead of emergency shelters. Who isn’t for that? (Well, maybe shelter developers and operators.) The rub, Hurwitz explained, […]
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