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Andrew Cuomo: “We have 5,000 community beds.”

Featuring: Andrew Cuomo, Democratic | Former Governor of New York

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Andrew Cuomo Discusses Immigration, Anti-Semitism, and Housing in New York City Mayoral Interview

Published | Video Starts at 09:29

Did you take away psychiatric beds and would you bring them back? Yeah, that is totally false. We have 3600 what they call psychiatric beds, which are involuntary institutional. Involuntary institutionalization beds. We have 5,000 community beds. You don't want to create another Willowbrook. Right. You don't want to lock hundreds of people into a state hospital. We did that. It was a mistake. (09:29–09:33)

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