Posted on June 23, 2016 by Duncan Osborne in Gay City News Gay City News, By Duncan Osborne With the New York State legislative session ending without an agreement on how to spend billions that Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed be used to fight homelessness, advocates and their allies are pummeling the governor for breaking a promise. “The governor is on the hook for promising 20,000 units of supportive housing, but then come budget time, he only funded 6,000, and now he comes back and funds 1,200,” said Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi, a Democrat who represents part of Queens, at a June 21 protest outside of Cuomo’s Manhattan office.
