NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Dismisses Homeless Activist: I’m ‘Doing My Workout’

Adesegun is an activist with VOCAL-NY, an advocacy group for low-income residents in New York state. According to Bklyner, the group is involved with the Coalition for the Homeless’ House Our Future campaign, which is asking de Blasio to commit to increasing the 15,000 housing units to be created for homeless people to 30,000. As of August, CFTH said, there were about 62,000 people sleeping in the city’s shelter system each night, including around 22,000 children.

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