NYC's Homeless Outreach Workers: Changing Lives On Our Streets and Subways

You might not see them every day, but our street outreach teams are some of this city’s unsung heroes who are making a difference 24/7/365. These outreach teams are doing the hard work of engaging with unhoused New Yorkers and getting them into more permanent, safe housing.

In this episode of the Get Stuff Done-Cast, NYC Mayor Eric Adams speaks with outreach worker Xaveir Shakesphere and Dept. of Social Services Commissioner Molly Wasow Park about how there is no one-size-fits-all approach to the intersecting crises of homelessness and serious mental illness, and how outreach work can change someone's life forever.

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[golddalewis]

My daughter is 23 years old and going to college full time and working she applied to housing connect won the lottery and met the income criteria but was denied and don’t understand the reasoning to that
They are saying she doesn’t have a government program, she doesn’t have kids. I myself was once in the shelter system, especially for single young women is hard is stressful, especially going to college trying to get a degree trying to make some thing better of your life. I don’t understand how the housing process could be so difficult that young people miss out on this opportunity basically because they try to make themself better. She cries

[vladp]

It’s mayors personal propaganda talk a thon on the peoples get money wasted project.

[Stuffnsuch]

I don’t see these workers anymore. The homeless are growing again

[blessedthanksgiving]

Gone are the days, when candidates, were of character, and will represent the people, they can't now, only Bernie and the likes can.
God bless the day Jumai becomes President of These United States Of America.
Oh! How we need Bill De Blasio.