NEW YORK CITY-Mayoral candidate Joe Lhota has joined other GOP hopefuls by endorsing a plan by the Housing First coalition that is proposing the city spend $8 billion to build or preserve 15,000 low cost housing units.
Lhota, the leading Republican candidate, has endorsed the coalition's plan that would require a $356-million annual funding increase, according to the Wall Street Journal.
"It is certainly newsworthy that Joe Lhota and the other two Republican candidates have chosen to endorse this plan because it's an ambitious plan, it's a plan that will cost money," said Ted Houghton, co-chairman of Housing First. "I've not seen it before across the spectrum of candidates like this."
Most Democratic candidates have met with the Housing First group and expressed support for a number of aspects of the coalition's plan, but many contenders for the Democratic nomination for mayor while not officially endorsing the coalition's housing plan, have released their own plans with similar or even higher targets. See story in the Wall Street Journal.
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