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Community leaders protest the construction of homeless shelter, call for the city to build permanent affordable housing

By Maya Mitrasinovic / Columbia Daily Spectator

"No more endless displacement," reads one poster at a Monday press conference at a vacant lot where West Harlem residents gathered to protest the city's plan of a transitional homeless shelter. Community leaders called for the city to invest in permanent affordable housing instead.

By Maya Mitrasinovic • January 26, 2021 at 5:46 AM

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