Posted on July 19, 2021 by Mary Wilson, Davis Land, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, and Carmel Delshad in Slate Slate, By Mary Wilson, Davis Land, Danielle Hewitt, Elena Schwartz, and Carmel Delshad During the height of the pandemic, New York City put up some of its homeless population in the city’s empty hotels. Now, as the city comes back to life, the program is ending—but the city’s unhoused population doesn’t want to go “back to normal.”