WATCH: Democratic Candidates for NYC Mayor on NYCHA & Family Homelessness

Missed City Limits mayoral forum Watch the full conversation here where the candidates answered questions on how their administration would improve citizens housing and address the challenges faced by homeless families with children Democratic mayor candidates at the April forum from left to right State Sen Jessica Ramos former NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and former State Assemblymember Michael Black City Limits Editor Jeanmarie Evelly far right helped moderate Photo by Adi Talwar Early voting kicks off Saturday in the primary voting for New York City mayor where a slate of Democratic candidates are competing to get on the ballot for November s general ballot against incumbent Eric Adams who s running as an independent Primary day is June Earlier this spring City Limits invited the candidates to share their plans with voters at an in-person forum focused on NYCHA and family homelessness The event took place at Manhattan Neighborhood Arrangement in partnership with the National Citizens Housing Framework and the Family Homelessness Coalition Couldn t join us at the time Fear not You can watch the full conversation below and hear directly from the mayoral hopefuls on what they d do to fund repairs at NYCHA including where they stand on the involvement of private managers root out corruption in the housing authority build more affordable housing improve the CityFHEPS voucher activity and more These issues couldn t be more pertinent NYCHA is need of an estimated billion in capital repairs over the next years and more than people sleep in the city s homeless shelter system each month including tens of thousands of children The candidates who took part in the April forum were City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams former State Assemblymember Michael Blake NYC Comptroller Brad Lander who joined about halfway through the event around the -minute mark State Sen Jessica Ramos and former NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and State Sen Zellnor Myrie declined citing the need to be in Albany for budget negotiations which were ongoing at the time Former hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson also did not take part citing a scheduling conflict Former Gov Andrew Cuomo s campaign did not respond to City Limits invitations to the event Catch the full video below We ve included timestamped bookmarks for each question the candidates answered if you d prefer to skip around summarized questions and where in the video they appear are listed below Questions the candidates answered and timestamps for where they appear in the video above mark Opening remarks mark What would you identify as the root cause of family homelessness and what would your administration do to address the concern mark NYC is experiencing a dire affordable housing shortage What would you do as mayor to address this mark How would you reduce the amount of time it takes CityFHEPS voucher holders to move from shelter into housing mark What would you do to address late payments to the homeless services nonprofits the city contracts with mark How would your administration root out corruption at NYCHA mark Where do you stand on PACT private management and the Preservation Trust as options to fund NYCHA mark How do you feel about the construction of non-public housing apartments on NYCHA property mark What would you do to enhance homelessness prevention efforts mark What would your administration do to ensure economic opportunities for NYCHA tenants mark How will you as mayor work to prevent families from returning to shelter after they leave The post WATCH Democratic Candidates for NYC Mayor on NYCHA Family Homelessness appeared first on City Limits