Brooklyn Reacts to City’s Task Force Removing Homeless Encampments From Under BQE Posted on April 7, 2022 by Jessy Edwards in BKReader 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 keep throwing out homeless people’s belongings Posted on April 5, 2022 by Jeff Coltin in City & State 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
Real Estate Backs Eric Adams’ Plan to Relocate Homeless Posted on April 4, 2022 by Celia Young in Commercial Observer 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
NYC Mayor Eric Adams calls to remove all homeless encampments Posted on April 2, 2022 by USA Today in USA Today Mayor Adams calls to remove homeless encampments from NYC, but advocates say it won’t help. ..Read More
‘Back to the Giuliani era’: Adams’ order to clear homeless camps ignites fury in New York Posted on April 2, 2022 by Janaki Chadha and Amanda Eisenberg in Politico 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
Encampment Sweeps Are Cruel Theater Posted on April 1, 2022 by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein in Curbed “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
Critics say Mayor Adams didn’t learn lesson from 9,000 homeless encampments torn down by de Blasio Posted on March 31, 2022 by NICHOLAS WILLIAMS, MOLLY CRANE-NEWMAN, MICHAEL GARTLAND and LEONARD GREENE in New York Daily News 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
New York City Clears 239 Homeless Camps. Only 5 People Move to Shelters. Posted on March 31, 2022 by Andy Newman and Michael Gold in The New York Times In the subways, nearly 80 people a week accepted shelter over a four-week period, Mayor Adams said. Officials have not yet said how many stayed off the street. ..Read More
Mayor Eric Adams wants to get rid of homeless encampments in NYC streets and subways. Will his plan work? Posted on March 31, 2022 by Andrew Julien, Chris Sommerfeldt, Clayton Guse, and Michael Gartland in New York Daily News Since coming into office in January, Mayor Adams has launched two major initiatives aimed at removing hundreds of homeless people — and their encampments — from New York City’s streets and subways. ..Read More