New transitional housing program to help homeless New Yorkers with severe mental illness

City officials announced a major milestone in their efforts to address the mental health crisis.

The Bridge to Home Facility will provide transitional housing with onsite clinical services to 46 people at a time with severe mental illness.

Roughly half of the city’s 78,000 behavioral health patients experience homelessness, according to city officials, meaning after they are discharged from the hospital, they have no place to go…

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