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Brad Lander: “There are around 2,000 people in New York who are living on…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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Brad Lander Discusses New York City Mayoral Candidacy and Criticizes Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo

Published | Video Starts at 21:53

And that's what I know how to do. So in those 500,000 units, we will include supportive housing. But in terms of the immediate issue for we're Talking about There are around 2,000 people in New York who are living on the streets and have serious mental illness. Today, there's 2,500 vacant units of supportive housing in New York City. There's, under Eric Adams policies, they're not eligible for because he uses these homeless sweeps. (21:53–22:04)

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Asserts that approximately 2,000 people in New York City are homeless and have serious mental illness.

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