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Mayor Blasio delivers a speech at the opening plenary session of the Summit on the Impact of Sustainable Development organized by the World Economic Forum in Midtown Manhattan on Monday, September 24, 2018.
(Mayor's Office of Photography)
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a homeless woman, "I am doing my training" when she approached him at the Brooklyn gym on Friday morning to ask her why more housing was not available for the homeless population of the city.
Nathylin Flower Adesegun, a 72-year-old VOCAL-NY activist, can be seen in a video approaching the mayor of a YMCA in the Park Slope area. She asked him why, according to some data, only 5% of the 300,000 units in his affordable housing program would go to the homeless population of the city.
"I'm doing my training," Blasio said. "I can not do that now."
De Blasio's security services intervened when the mayor walked away saying, "I do not do it here."
Another activist can be heard: "Why not hire more housing for homeless New Yorkers, mayor of Blasio?"
The mayor's office, contacted for a comment, replied "No thanks" in an email.
Ms. Flowers, as other activists call it, was referring to de Blasio's mandatory inclusive housing program, which allows entrepreneurs to build larger projects if a certain percentage of housing is reserved for affordable housing.
Advocates of the city's homeless population argue that even these income needs are too high.
Coalition for the Homeless Policy Director Giselle Routhier told Park Slope Patch that while the program added more than 300,000 units, only 5% went to homeless New Yorkers.
Mrs. Flowers said the mayor of Blasio "said his morning training was more important for him".
"Am I just supposed to be homeless?"
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