Talk:Bill de Blasio
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Is this the only entry on de Blasio? Sooo much more to say
changeI looked around for other links to him. Perhaps I am missing the obvious. But there is so much more to say about his mayoralty:
First, his wife, Chirlane McCray, was in charge of a $1B city program on mental health that couldn't account for expenditures and lacked any real evidence of positive outcomes. [Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/nyregion/thrivenyc-mental-health-.html Cf the wikipedia article on Chirlane.]
Second, his negative impact on homelessness is historic: [Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/nyregion/de-blasio-report-card-inequity.html#:~:text=65%20percent%20increase%20in%20single%20adults%20living%20in%20shelters&text=But%20on%20homelessness%2C%20what%20has,11%20percent%20during%20his%20tenure. ]
Third, as Mayor, he presided over homeless people being moved from shelters to lower-level and even mid-level hotels, many on Manhattan's Upper West Side, to minimize the spread of COVID. The plan was to isolate those who might infect others. The effect is that the homeless people just enjoyed themselves on the street -- defecating, harrassing, and having sex in stairwells -- often around families with small children. [source: https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/05/19/de-blasio-pushes-hard-against-moving-all-homeless-to-hotels-1284548 ]
There is more, of course. And there were a few positive things, certainly.
His mayoralty was one of the worst things NYC has experienced in generations, and the Wikipedia entry is unbelievably scant and only positive/neutral. Nothing critical. I'm frankly shocked. HowardFreeman63 (talk) 21:56, 26 June 2023 (UTC)