Don’t remove homeless camps, says advocate Posted on March 29, 2022 by Fox 5 in Fox 5 Homeless advocates say that by removing homeless encampments the Adams administration is not addressing the route cause of homelessness. ..Read More
In NYC, the Long Road From Shelter to Public Housing Gets Longer Posted on March 28, 2022 by David Brand in City Limits Natasha Logan got the good news in September 2020. After more than a decade on the NYCHA waiting list, she was found eligible for an apartment. ..Read More
Homeless advocates rail against Adams plan to take encampments off the sidewalks of New York Posted on March 27, 2022 by Dean Moses in amNY Homeless rights advocates and organizations admonished Mayor Eric Adams after he announced his administration’s plan to remove homeless encampments from the streets of New York. ..Read More
Mayor Eric Adams plans to clear NYC of makeshift homeless encampments, sparking criticism from advocates Posted on March 26, 2022 by Nicholas Williams, Clayton Guse, and Larry McShane in New York Daily News A city homeless advocacy group, in a Saturday broadside, blasted Mayor Adams over his plan to remove people from the makeshift outdoor encampments now called home by hundreds of the dispossessed. ..Read More
Adams says he’s kicking homeless New Yorkers out of their encampments. Where will they go? Posted on March 26, 2022 by Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky in Gothamist Just weeks after embarking on a campaign to boot unsheltered New Yorkers out of the subway system, Mayor Eric Adams says he’s removing their encampments from the streets as well. ..Read More
Lost and forgotten: Record number of homeless died in New York last year, report finds Posted on March 22, 2022 by Kevin Duggan in amNY A record number of New York homeless people died last year, according to a new report by the group Coalition for the Homeless, who called on the city and state to fund more housing units and remove cops from outreach responses to the Big Apple’s unhoused. ..Read More
Overnight on the trains: The subway safety plan a month in Posted on March 22, 2022 by Courtney Gross in NY1 At around 1 a.m. Tuesday, a group of NYPD officers was taking on some new tasks. An officer taps on the metal poll inside a subway car. “Can you have a seat please? You need shelter services?” he asks a man lying down. The person slowly sits up. ..Read More
NYC’s homeless population higher than official estimate as city faces shortage of safe shelters: report Posted on March 22, 2022 by Clayton Guse in New York Daily News The number of homeless people sleeping on New York’s streets and subways is higher than city officials estimate — and the shabby state of the city’s shelters is in part to blame, said a report published Tuesday by the Coalition for the Homeless. ..Read More
Man suspected of stalking, killing homeless people arrested Posted on March 15, 2022 by Bobby Caina Calvan and Ashraf Khalil in AP News WASHINGTON (AP) — A gunman suspected of stalking homeless people asleep on the streets of New York City and Washington, D.C., killing at least two people and wounding three others, was arrested early Tuesday, police said. ..Read More