Higher prices, fewer available units, virtually nothing on the market for working people. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are just one rent hike, one medical emergency, one layoff from joining the ranks of The homeless [in New York City] have swelled to the greatest numbers since the Great Depression. There is good news, however, there has never been more consensus across the ideological spectrum that we are indeed in a housing crisis and the deep necessity of building more housing across these five boroughs. (00:45–00:50)
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Asserts that the number of homeless people in New York City is the highest since the Great Depression.
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