Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio and his newly-appointed Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services today vowed to change the way the city treats its poor and to address the homeless crisis in a city where 22,000 children now live in shelters.
Mr. de Blasio began his announcement talking about Dasani, the 11-year-old girl profiled in a widely-read, in-depth New York Times series this week about the struggles of living in the city’s sprawling shelter system.
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