The City Council, in its April 23 response to Mayor de Blasio’s preliminary budget, recommended an additional $257 million in spending on programs including universal free school lunches, the hiring of 1,000 more cops and a slew of other initiatives, many focused on perennial concerns like affordable housing.
The Council would also resurrect rental subsidies to the homeless, three years after Mayor Bloomberg let a similar program lapse. It called for $1 million to be allocated to four new technology incubators in the outer boroughs, for more spending on senior services and public safety-net hospitals, and for a commission to consider ways to make property taxes more fair.
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