"New Yorkers have a right to shelter. It’s been a moral right throughout our city’s history, and a legal right for over four decades.
"Just yesterday, my office advanced legislation to create a ‘Homeless Bill of Rights’ which would, among other things, codify and help to ensure existing rights are upheld, empowering homeless individuals to self-advocate if those rights are violated.
"The rights that this legislation would codify are a floor, not a ceiling. They're a base standard, a moral and legal obligation that the city must meet for vulnerable unhoused New Yorkers, including those who have just arrived here.
"The city’s priority can’t be to retreat from that standard – it must affirm and enhance these rights, and alter our approach to the housing and homelessness crisis, an approach that has left us without sufficient deeply affordable housing to meet the need. We have the tools to house New Yorkers in need, but we need the political will."
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