Eric Lee from Homeless Services United (HSU) endorses the City of Yes Housing Plan, highlighting its potential to address New York City's housing affordability crisis and homelessness. He emphasizes the plan's aim to eliminate zoning barriers and create more affordable housing units across the five boroughs.

• Lee presents statistics on rent burden, shelter occupancy, and the city's low housing vacancy rate to underscore the urgency of the housing crisis.
• HSU supports the additional $2 billion in the city's FY25 budget for affordable housing preservation and creation.
• While endorsing the long-term improvements proposed by the City of Yes Plan, Lee recommends prioritizing resources for very low and extremely low-income households to address immediate homelessness concerns.

• The main driver of homelessness is the inability to afford housing
• HSU endorses the City of Yes housing plan in full
• The plan will eliminate zoning barriers and unlock the ability to create more affordable housing units throughout the 5 boroughs
• New York City's housing is in an affordability crisis with nearly 600,000 households spending more than half their income on rent
• More than 145,000 people slept in shelters in a single night in December of the previous year
• The city's vacancy rate for housing is the lowest it's been since 1968
• The City of Yes Plan is projected to support the creation of 150,000 new units of housing across the next 15 years in all five boroughs
• Recommends prioritizing resources for more robust operational affordable housing for very low income and extremely low income households
• Emphasizes the importance of ensuring that affordable housing is truly affordable for lower income New Yorkers

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