how many ms can you find in:
after three years of blaming his predecessors, mayor de blasio has finally deigned to take ownership of the homeless crisis. how nice.
the shelter population — 60,686 as of monday — continues to hit record highs, with no end in sight.
the mayor’s promising otherwise, of course: he told wnyc’s brian lehrer that his new initiatives are “taking hold” and would soon start bringing the shelter numbers coming down.
but why are they still heading up? a spokesperson for the coalition for the homeless attributed the rise to more victims of domestic violence opting to flee those situations, more people moving off the streets and an increase in folks losing their tenancy in illegal housing..
which suggests that the policies of steven banks, the lifelong “homeless advocate” whom de blasio put in charge of handling the crisis, are at the heart of the problem.
and that banks’ initiatives — pushing hard to place more homeless in nycha apartments and other city-funded housing, as well as into “affordable” units not previously dedicated to the homeless — won’t turn the tide..
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I counted 21 "m"s in that text.
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