21-10-2016 17:54 via brooklyndaily.com

City’s troubled storm-recovery program gets taxpayer bail-out

Note: More media content is available for this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyOne week before the four-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, Mayor DeBlasio admitted he won’t make his own self-imposed deadline to fix all the homes the storm destroyed by the end of the year — and that the troubled Build it Back storm-recovery program needs taxpayers to bail it out to the tune of $500 million. Officials took much of the money from the city’s capital budget
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