an important thread
(I was around NY and covered some of the issues when Bob Hayes ran the Coalition for the Homeless; he was a charismatic leader who argued effectively housing was the overwhelming issue, not mental health - a position he later modified)https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/1070482286808682496 …
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I was about to try to find ... my recollection is fuzzy but I believe he later said that mental health issues were a far greater part of the problem than he had argued at the time. It was much cleaner to say, it's just a housing issue... He was an important and impressive figure
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a reminder NY’s homeless problem did not go away: https://www.marketplace.org/2015/09/30/behind-new-yorks-right-shelter-policy/ … “[Hayes] said he also felt a sense of failure. Youthful optimism had convinced him he’d see the end of homelessness, but he said the 60,000 New Yorkers currently living in shelters prove he came up short.
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@elizashapiro often points out, more than 100K homeless students in NYC public schoolshttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/nyregion/homeless-students-nyc-schools-record.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Also we can try to ask him directly ...
@RobertHayesCHN, am I remembering correctly? (I was a Newsday reporter back in the day)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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