Brad Lander: “I'm going to end street homelessness for people with serious…”

“I'm gonna stand up to Donald Trump and fight for New Yorkers and deliver a city that works better for you. So here are my big promises. First, I'm going to end street homelessness for people with serious mental illness in New York City. We don't have to be a city where thousands of our mentally ill neighbors sleep on the subway platforms and the stoops of our buildings, a danger to themselves and sometimes to others.” (00:56–01:02)

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