David Brand

And Councilmember Ben Kallos, a candidate for Manhattan borough president, said raising the voucher value will help New Yorkers move from shelters and into “tens of thousands of vacant apartments in our city.” 

He said the city could go even further by moving families from shelters into empty condos. 

“If we took every single condo and put a homeless family in there, that would eliminate half the homeless in our shelters,” he said.