Christopher Kaminski is one of thousands of parolees coming straight from prison into the city's shelter system.

"I can't do it. I can't do what everybody else is doing there: Laying around, doing nothing, getting high," Kaminski had said. "I don't want to live like that no more."

Kaminski was the subject of special investigation by NY1, an investigation which revealed the sharp rise in the number of parolees funneled into city homeless shelters from state prisons — shelters where parolees, like Kaminiski, face drugs and violence.

• Special report: The New York prison-to-shelter pipeline

"Obviously, we need more programs, and he was a case where somebody that kind of fell through the cracks," Staten Assemblyman David Weprin of Queens said.

A day after our investigation, officials at City Hall and beyond sounded off.

"Like I said, this is hashtag Cuomo's housing crisis," said Brooklyn City Councilman Jumaane Williams, who is running for lieutenant governor — likely against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's current lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul.

"I do know that individuals who are being discharged from prison should not be placed in shelters," Public Advocate Letitia James said.

Williams was calling for more housing and discharge planning, while pointing fingers at the governor.

"Both of these things fall directly to the state, and a lot of it falls to the gubernatorial mansion," the councilman said.

Another called for more city and state funding: "I would urge both leaders to put forth in the budget some additional resources for discharge planning, but more importantly additional resources for supportive housing for individuals who are being discharged from state prisons," James said.

The state oversees the parole system. On an unrelated conference call Wednesday, we asked Cuomo whether sending parolees to shelter means the state was contributing to the homeless crisis:

Gross: They are being put into a shelter — a city homeless shelter.

Cuomo: OK, I, I — I'm not questioning your reporting, but I don't know those facts. So, let me have Alphonso David call you because he can do some research and have an intelligent conversation with you.

David, the Counsel to the Governor, did send NY1 a statement, saying the number of parolees being sent to New York City in total has gone down. He added that parolees make up a small number of the city's entire shelter population, and he said the state continues to help parolees find suitable housing.