all comes a week after the mayor introduced a $22 million proposal to deal with homelessness called nyccmoney would be used to house and treat those with mental illness and put more police at homeless shelters. >>> nicky, on the subject of these photos. you say nobody took a photo of anybody that looked like you but i want to raise the question, you were on the streets. you were homeless at the age of nine. what would it have done to you to see your image posted online and social media as a way of trying to shame city hall? i would have been made an object of ridicule and it would have hurt my self-esteem. i was already in a very difficult situation and people turned away from me because i was dirty and people didn't want to see my pain. so the thought of someone taking a picture of me instead of help me, i would not have been able to understood that. >> what's your response to taking photos of the homeless? >> it's an assault on the basic human dignity. it's shameful that there's such homelessness in this country, with new york city the center of wealth there, wall street. they're livin