COVID-19 has highlighted an ongoing problem in New York: the lack of affordable housing.

There have certainly been programs over the years, like 421-a, that were supposed to force developers to build affordable units in exchange for tax breaks on their luxury units. 

But for years those programs went unmonitored. Now, with unemployment above 8% and more than a million New Yorkers in rent arrears, the eviction moratorium has been extended. 

But what happens when that moratorium ends and all the rent comes due? 

State Senator and Comptroller candidate Brian Benjamin joined In Focus to talk about what needs to be done to protect New Yorkers from losing their homes, programs that need to be put in place to keep already hard-hit city residents from being thrown onto the streets or into shelters, and what he hopes the Biden administration will do to help the already cash-strapped city and state.