Home News De Blasio’s Plan to Fight ... De Blasio’s Plan to Fight Homelessness Won’t Do Much, Critics Say Posted on January 31, 2018 by Jacquelyn Simone Mayor de Blasio’s touted his affordable housing plan as unprecedented and ambitious — but advocates for the homeless say it’ll barely put a dent in the population of New Yorkers sleeping in shelters. “We have to tie it to what the need is — and that is reducing the homelessness that is currently at record levels,” Giselle Routhier, policy director of the Coalition for the Homeless, told the Daily News.