#AskTheMayor: Funding Lawyers for Low Income Tenants

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 11, 2017

Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week NYC for the last time before the 2017 mayoral election. He talks about e-bike enforcement, the city's freelance economy, legislation about funding lawyers for low income tenants in housing court, affordable housing, turnstile jumping, the closing of Rikers Island, and the city's effort to get homeless people off the streets. 

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