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Published in TZ Latest News 30 August, 2017 by The TZ Newswire Staff

The city wants to spend $98M to turn apartment buildings into homeless shelters, and tenant advocates are sweating

City Hall is working on a $98 million deal to turn five apartment buildings into permanent homeless shelters and keep another six buildings in the notorious cluster site program for another three years. The five buildings due for conversion are currently part of the cluster site program, a Rudolph Giuliani-era creation that uses privately owned apartments to house homeless families. Advocates worry that the costly program encourages tenant harassment, because landlords can often jack up […]

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