It's hard to get out. The length of time people are in keeps going up and up and up. And of course, it has a dramatic cost for the city itself, because The cost of shelter dramatically outpaces what it would have cost us to pay for the lawyers to keep those families in their homes. So that is what is outlined in evictions up, representation down. Just how bad it's gotten under the Adams administration, just how badly the state is failing to provide its share. (22:43–22:53)
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