At a joint hearing this month on the city’s decision to revoke 3,000 federal housing vouchers for needy families, members of three different City Council committees took turns grilling Bloomberg administration officials on why the money disappeared and what could be done to replace it.
Homeless Commissioner Robert Hess, sitting alongside his counterparts at the Housing Department and The New York City Housing Authority, escaped largely unscathed until about halfway through the proceedings, when Council Member Letitia James addressed him directly.
