NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 07: Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President and a Democratic mayoral candidate, speaks after receiving the endorsement from the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) in the Bronx on May 07, 2021 in New York City. In a new poll conducted by Washington, D.C.-based firm GQR, Eric Adams is leading the field of mayoral candidates for the first time. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) ordered the clear encampments of homeless people across New York City. Police have removed around 150 encampments over two weeks.
“I’m not going to have an inhumane city that allows people to live in an inhumane dangerous environment,” Adams said. In Adams’s citywide plan, the NYPD will offer shelter to the homeless before giving them the warning to vacate.
Although Adams acknowledges that the city doesn’t have the power to stop people from living on the street, he wants to limit the building on encampments. “We cannot tolerate these makeshift, unsafe houses on the side of highways and trees and in front of, you, schools and parks. This is just unacceptable,” Adams said.
The new initiative has generated controversy. Jacquelyn Simone, policy director for the Coalition for the Homeless, said: “if the mayor is serious about helping homeless people, he needs to open thousands of New Safe Haven and stabilization rooms and offer them to those in need.”
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Adams responded by saying, “We want them in shelters. The shelters are extremely safe for people who are homeless.”
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