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Brian Ler on WN like see we want to acknowledge something that took place yesterday in New York

under the purview of the Robin Hood Foundation and Richard Bury their CEO who some of you

know that name he's a former New York City deputy mayor for strategic policy initiatives

under mayor de Blasio he was very instrumental in the pre K universal pre K program and other

things that de Blasio did that are having an effect to this day and Robin Hood which

focuses on the needs of poor people in New York City took a deep dive yesterday at a conference

they had on housing instability and homelessness consider for a moment that the number of people

who slept in homeless shelters or passed a hundred thousand for the first time this past

June in New York City that's partly but not only because of the influx of asylum seekers

but we should note that that number includes a lot of families with children and it occurred

despite significant city spending on homelessness and housing and even beyond New York City upstate

in rural regions have seen worsening housing access and remember the fight over where and

how to build more housing in New York brought lawmakers in Albany to their knees this past

summer which is to say they argued they fought they debated they introduced bills and they

failed to pass any the philanthropic anti poverty organization known as Robin Hood get

explore these issues yesterday and what they call a deep dive into New York's affordable

housing crisis bringing together some leading voices and policy advocacy and elsewhere so we

will get an informed view of the root causes of housing instability homelessness and the

affordable housing crisis in New York perhaps the city's number one ongoing issue and some potential

policy solutions in an area where reform and action have been so difficult we've got two guests

who were involved Richard Bury is here CEO of Robin Hood Foundation and former deputy mayor

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