Hotels Housing the Homeless Test the Upper West Side's Liberal Credentials
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English - August 14, 2020 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 149 ratingsPolitics News Government cuomo ny1 deblasio gracerauh juanmanuelbenitez nixon offtopic politics zackfink Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When the coronavirus pandemic struck New York City, Mayor de Blasio decided to move homeless people from shelters into otherwise empty hotels to try to protect them.
NY1's Zack Fink, Courtney Gross, and Juan Manuel Benitez discuss how that decision has divided one typically left-leaning neighborhood, which has seen four hotels begin to house homeless New Yorkers over the last few months.
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