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“Without that missing piece of where people will go, I do think that this plan will not be successful and we'll see more people pushed from one subway line to another, or from the subways to the streets, where they're exposed to the elements,” one advocate says.

The report says that the nonprofit outreach provider exaggerated the number of homeless people they placed in shelters.

“People are hanging out all over, drugged up and disgusting, and you can’t even get by. There are million dollar apartments here, and people are hanging out all over the street.”