“New York City could pay to house its homeless population in hotel rooms currently sitting vacant, but Mayor Bill de Blasio “has absolutely to this point refused to do that.”
Coalition for the Homeless
advocacy group. a newspaper interview. Claim dated 8 Apr 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
The number of hotel rooms being used for housing homeless New Yorkers is well short of the tens of thousands of rooms needed to house New York City’s homeless population, though the number has risen.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Coalition for the Homeless (advocacy group) made this claim around 8 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 May 2020, 35 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Where the claim appeared
- nydailynews.comhttps://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-hotels-homeless-triage-isolation-2…
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