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Antonio Fernández outlines food and housing priorities as new executive director of Catholic Charities in New York
Summary
Antonio Fernández, named executive director of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York in September, told Diálogo Abierto his top priorities are feeding families and expanding housing assistance in New York; he said Catholic Charities served hundreds of thousands and assisted over 25,000 families with housing last year (claims made on air).
Antonio Fernández, the newly appointed executive director of Caridades Católicas de la Arquidiócesis de Nueva York, told Diálogo Abierto that his two immediate priorities for the agency in New York are food distribution and housing assistance. Fernández said he took the role in September and described a decades-long career in charitable work across Chicago and San Antonio before returning to New York.
"Hoy hemos dado comida a más de 450 familias," Fernández said, and later in the interview he stated that "más de 400,000 personas en Nueva York recibieron comida el año…
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