The Latest on the City's Plans to Move Homeless New Yorkers Back to Shelters

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 16, 2021

The city was in the midst of moving homeless people from hotels and into shelters, where the conditions are crowded, and COVID is a bigger risk, when a judge blocked the city's plan. Jacquelyn Simone, senior policy analyst for Coalition for the Homeless, talks about why this happened and what comes next for unhoused people here in the city.

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