The Close to Home Program is a program that is being pushed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to gain more and more power. The program allows troubled teens and delinquents to live in neighborhoods that are doing well. As residents, they are expected to fit into society and be influenced to do better as residents of a up and coming community. Mayor de Blasio was elected as Mayor of New York City in the 2013 New York mayoral election. He was born and raised as a New Yorker since 1961.