Posted on 10/07/2018 6:42:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio has agreed to meet with members of a homelessness advocacy group following backlash he received for brushing off an activist who confronted him at the gym, The Hill reported on Sunday.
De Blasio, who has promised to deal with homelessness, was approached last Thursday by 72-year-old activist Nathylin Flowers Adesegun while he was doing a workout at the Brooklyn YMCA, but dismissed her by saying "I’m not doing this here," according to footage of the encounter posted on YouTube.
De Blasio then walked away from Flowers Adesegun as his bodyguard stepped in between them while other activists shouted at the mayor: "We need housing for homeless New Yorkers!"
Adesegun is an activist with Vocal-NY, an advocacy group for low-income residents in New York state, according to the Huffington Post.
De Blasio has now invited the Vocal-NY members to City Hall for a meeting, The New York Times reported.
Vocal-NY is requesting that the mayor double the number of units available for homeless people in affordable housing apartments.
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poor, whining de blasio harassed by the proletariats in his safe zone.
I’m waiting for the modern day version of 40 acres and a mule.
More like De Blasio isn’t paying enough to line the pockets of this “advocacy group” then it is about the city not solving the root cause of homelessness. Because all they have to do is get rid of rent control laws and open up the market and homelessness will decline.
Give him scabies.
Oh, NOW YA WANNA MEET. Hey, Wilhelm.. GFYS!
We do not have an unaffordable housing problem, we have an unaffordable people problem.
They go through a housing stock like termites.
He would have cared had she been in this country illegally..after all, getting those illegal alien votes is VERY important
Why isn’t there more housing for the homeless? Because then they wouldn’t be homeless.
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