Jamaica Homeless Shelter/Next Step/Spitzer on Safety for Immigrant Workers

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Cindy Rodriguez interviews Mary Harris who lives in a homeless shelter in Jamaica. Personal information is exchanged. Tour of a program to help long term shelter residents find apartments outside the shelter system. Interview of Rob Hess of the Department of Homeless Services about the Next Step program to move people to permanent housing. Press conference in Corona Park including Eliot Spitzer and John Sabini about keeping immigrant workers safe.


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