Mayor, City Housing Agency Scramble for Homelessness Funding

Mayor, City Housing Agency Scramble for Homelessness Funding

Mayor Todd Gloria’s office wants the city’s Housing Commission to come up with $15 million to help plug the city’s budget deficit and minimize cuts to homeless services.  Yet Gloria’s team doesn’t know where the money’s going to come from.   Housing agency officials aren’t certain, either. They say there are strings attached to the various accounts that Gloria’s team initially thought they could tap.  The housing agency is also dealing with anot…