Year: 2022

Jacquelyn Simone, policy director with Coalition for the Homeless, joins ‘In Focus’ to discuss Mayor Adams’ clearing of homeless encampments throughout the city. ..Read More

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has continued removing homeless encampments in the city, even as the policy has come under intense scrutiny. ..Read More

Ten homeless encampments underneath the BQE in Brooklyn have been removed at the direction of New York City Mayor Eric Adams in the first phase of an initiative designed to connect homeless people with City services, but it has been heavily criticized by local ..Read More

New York City workers have been throwing out homeless people’s personal belongings in the latest round of sweeps, advocates for unhoused people said – despite New York City Mayor Eric Adams and city Sanitation Department officials’ assurances that they w ..Read More

New York City officials in the second half of March relocated 239 temporary camps made by some of the city’s unhoused residents — an effort welcomed by the real estate industry and the wider business community, but one that advocates said the city had trie ..Read More

Mayor Adams calls to remove homeless encampments from NYC, but advocates say it won’t help. ..Read More

NEW YORK — A series of violent encounters in New York’s subway system this year pushed the city’s new tough-on-crime mayor to take decisive action. Eric Adams sent NYPD officers into transit hubs and onto trains to force homeless people out. ..Read More

“It’s a process,” Eric Adams said this week at the press conference formally announcing his initiative to clear homeless encampments across the city. People wouldn’t necessarily agree to enter the shelter system right away; that would take some time. � ..Read More

Given the choice between the haven of a city shelter and a makeshift hut on the street, Gloria, a homeless woman scraping by near Manhattan’s Tompkins Square Park, says she’s staying on the street. ..Read More