Affordable Housing and Homelessness in New York City: From La Guardia to De Blasio October 26, 2016 6:30 - 8 pm 365 5th Ave The Graduate Center, CUNY Elebash Recital Hall Mayor De Blasio plans to build or rehab 200,000 units of affordable housing by 2024. Our panel will assess how this initiative is faring, and compare it with previous efforts at combating the high cost of housing, and reducing homelessness, in the city. Nicholas Dagen Bloom (NYIT), co-editor of Affordable Housing in New York, author of Public Housing that Worked Thomas J. Main (Baruch), author of Homelessness in New York: From Koch to De Blasio Barika Williams, Deputy Director, Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development Jessica Katz, Assistant Commissioner, NYC Dept. Housing, Preservation, and Development Charles Bagli, New York Times (moderator) Presented by the Gotham Center for New York City History