Gary Rosen hosts with panelists Candy Mero-Carlson, Moe Bergman, and Walter Bird. The panel discussed how difficult it is for individuals and families to find adequate and affordable housing in the city. Homeless people in the city, most of whom have mental health and addiction issues, also lack shelters where they can stay, eat and be safe during cold winter nights. The city opened up the Seeds of Hope Shelter in Blessed Sacrament Church and although Open Sky, the management team, has done an exceptional job inside the shelter, there have been many problems caused by shelter clients in neighbors' residential yards and area businesses. The panel says that the city must put safeguards and rules in place that will be enforced when the 90-unit housing for the homeless is opened on Oriol Drive next to Lincoln Plaza.
Posted February 9th 2023 8:21pm.