So for safer, we will end the street homelessness for people with serious mental illness. In my first term in office, it might sound pie in the sky. We're Talking about About 2,000 people who are sleeping on the street who have serious mental illness. With this policy I have of housing first and connecting them to housing and care and real mayoral leadership, I don't have to have people who are sleeping on the street of the city mentally ill, not just feel like New York again. (00:59–01:05)
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