City turns to public for new homelessness initiative
“‘This is not a replacement of what we’re doing as a city,’ Siegel said. ‘This is a complement.’
The program will receive no city funding. Siegel says that will afford it more flexibility.
‘We think by doing that without government funding, with the bureaucracies and the regulations, we’ll be free to do what we think we have to do,’ Siegel said.
Also Tuesday, the mayor said homeless shelters have been deluged in recent weeks with more than 2,800 asylum seekers from Latin America and elsewhere.”