Your signature issue is your plan to end street homelessness for folks who have severe mental illness. How do you do that? So Right now, we're talking about about 2,000 people in New York City who are sleeping on the street tonight. or might be in hospital or at Rikers, and when they come out, it will be likely to be homeless. We actually have about 2,500 vacant single room occupancy or SRO, or supportive housing units. (08:21–08:36)
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