i want to thank governor hauke will all of the elected partners that are fighting to get this done.'s so crucial for our city. [applause] the crisis is a rule we know how to solve it by building more homes but this will help new yorkers from all walks of life for those who need a second chance, or exceeded the best place to raise a family means helping even more people find an affordable home. when i was young there were days when my siblings and i had to carry out close to school and trash bags because we were worried we might be evicted before the day was over. my mother wrote job after job to save up enough money and move us from a tenement building to a small house in queens. struggled to keep a roof over our heads continued. mom was afraid she would lose everything she had worked for. too many families still feel this way today. that is why our administration brought an ambitious new approach to housing right from the start. described it well. everything, every aware all at once. [applause] that means building on every block in every borough. working with every agency in every

suffering serious injuries for the violence prompting sharp criticism for new york governor kathy haukehold made a series of post on x in mid-december like this when touting crime was going down while ridership was going up. the same post she talked about national guardsmen deployed in the subway system. new security cameras installed on every subway car the expanded mental health outreach for this week the governor said the state has to do more. including changing state law. making it easier to commit a person to medical care without their consent she also wants to strengthen existing law here in new york called kendra's law allow the court to set psychiatric treatment for people suffering from mental illness. cooked legislative language will give more direction to the doctors and hospitals were saying to us right now so menace brought in, we are not sure if we can keep them to give them the care we believe they need as professionals the law is not firm enough. >> backing is saying in part several recent incidents as shown what happens when these issues go untreated. i have to mention

i'm talking about people like mark hauk. mark from pennsylvania, here he is with his family at mass. a man of faith, a man of family, a man of work and commitment and responsibility whose crime, whose crime, according to the last administration, was to take one of his young sons to an abortion clinic and there to stand peacefully to pray, to sing, to engage with those who wanted to talk about the alternatives to abortion. and what did mark do when a proabortionist came and shoved his young son? mark defended his young son. the biden administration sent an fbi swat team to his door in the early morning hours. why? just to terrorize him. to terrorize these children. to send a message to religious believers and pro-lifers all over this country, don't you dare exercise your first amendment rights. don't you dare speak up in favor of life. don't you dare take a stand. they took his case all the way to trial where, i'm glad to report, he was swiftly acquitted. completely exonerated. mr. president, other americans have not been so