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NYC’s Human Service Workers Deserve Just Pay in This Year’s Budget: Op-Ed by Myung Lee

Almost half of all homeless youth in NYC identify as LGBTQ+. VOA-Greater New York’s Sandra Márquez outlines the two-pronged approach the city can take to address this crisis.

“The very forces contributing to a worsening housing emergency are also impacting the workers tasked with solving that crisis. Those who work to find permanent and safe apartments for the housing-insecure and homeless should not find themselves at risk of eviction and displacement,” writes Myung Lee, President & CEO of VOA-Greater New York.

Read the full op-ed published by City Limits here.