That's cap. NY used to have housing designed to house a lot of people. They've decided they wanted to cater to the 1% so most of the developments are wasting space. Example of how you can use space effectively to house a lot of people.
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They're talking about how much it costs to house the un housed? Show us the numbers. What percentage of the budget is devoted to the construction of subsidized housing? NY Apts used to house a ton of people but they tore that shyt down for high ways and to build expensive, worse housing for the wealthy.
Whenever someone in power goes on and on about immigrants, the translation is "look over there at that thing and ignore the root problems that I don't want to spend time and money trying to fix"