What It'll Take to Get the Homeless into Homes

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 15, 2016

Mary Brosnahan, the President and CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless, says that New York City had roughly 35,000 homeless people in 2011 when Gov. Cuomo took office. Now, the city's homeless population is around 60,000. Brosnahan joined us to discuss what it'd take for Gov. Cuomo to "display the true leadership he's capable of" and start supporting initiatives that would decrease that number.

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