SENATOR ESPAILLAT'S STATEMENT ON THE STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS

SENATOR ESPAILLAT: GOVERNOR CUOMO PROPOSES HISTORIC INVESTMENT TO COMBAT HOMLESSNESS 

"New Yorkers are losing their homes and this historic investment in affordable and supportive housing holds the potential to turn the tide. Over 40% of New York City renters are 'rent burdened', hundreds of thousands are on a wait list for public housing, and over 59,000 are homeless; many of them children. This is unacceptable. 

We must undertake a monumental effort to ensure working class and middle class New Yorkers have a home in our city. The Governor's proposal to invest $20 billion over five years in affordable and supportive housing plots a course in that direction. I will work with the Governor to tirelessly advocate for the housing funding he proposed today."

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