Mayor agrees to require units for homeless in city-backed projects

The City Council has persuaded Mayor Bill de Blasio to require that some apartments in large city-financed projects be set aside for homeless people. The de Blasio administration had long opposed a 2018 bill introduced by Council member Rafael Salamanca to require developers to devote 15 percent of apartments for people coming out of homeless shelters for projects of 15 or more units receiving a city subsidy. But Politico reported that the mayor reached a

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