CM Narcisse questions OMB on homeless services spending and permanent housing

How come during the height when we had all the migrants, we were coming in and we have more money for homeless services, we have more money in the budget now for the services for homeless?

In our city while during the height of the migrant crisis we had less.

So which direction are we going?

Are we putting people in permanent housing or we plan to continue using shelters and to serve the population that we have in New York City?

I think as demonstrated in our block-by-block housing plan, we are committed to moving full steam ahead on an ambitious housing plan, 200,000 new affordable

units as our goal, 200,000 units, homes preserved as well.

And so the plan is chock full of strategies to be able to address that.

So our primary goal is to connect New Yorkers with permanent housing.

That is the goal.

That's where we want to be.

We also have an obligation to serve the unhoused, and that is why you see a Department of Homeless Services budget and so on and so forth.

address what had been, as we discussed, chronic under budgeting in primarily the social services area

by adding billions really when you look at shelter, when you look at city FEPS that had been under budgeted, when you look at cash assistance.

Those are three areas among the top six that we talked about in terms of addressing chronic under budgeting, but the goal is

Permanent housing.

That's what we need to focus.

I think that's the best way to go next.

Let's win this.

Let's do it.

Nice.