Garcia says her ‘Housing Heals’ plan aims to end homelessness in New York City

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Mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia says she has a plan to address the soaring rise in homelessness in New York.

Manhattanites and those in the outer boroughs are hard-pressed to walk a few blocks without encountering an individual suffering from homelessness, leading many activist groups to stage protests calling for housing as a human right while others point fingers to the crisis as cause for the rise in violent crime.

The COVID-19 pandemic has left many in dire straits, but an unabated surge in destitution has been a problem for the city prior to the arrival of the novel coronavirus.

On Wednesday afternoon, Garcia joined housing advocate Tracy Nuzzo outside HRA Men’s Shelter on East 30th Street to unveil her “Housing Heals” plan, which she believes will vastly reduce the number of unhoused residents to statistics the city has not seen in 20 years.