Monica Posted on April 12, 2022 Watch the story of Monica, who has shown amazing resilience, despite the many challenges life has thrown her way. First Step helped Monica find a full-time job, safe housing, and a community of women who showed her how to tap into her own intrinsic strengths a ..Read More
Protests Mount Over Mayor’s ‘Cruel’ Homeless Encampment Sweeps Posted on April 12, 2022 by Anna Quinn in Patch NEW YORK, NY — A movement to physically stop Mayor Eric Adams’ controversial clean-up of homeless encampments is growing across the city as activists urge the mayor to take on new methods of helping unhoused New Yorkers. ..Read More
Coalition for the homeless says Mayor Adams’ homeless plan misses the mark Posted on April 10, 2022 by Cheryl Wills and Kaitlynn Keller in Spectrum News NY1 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
As city clears homeless encampments, questions surround Adams’ plans for new shelter beds Posted on April 8, 2022 by Chau Lam in Gothamist Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has continued removing homeless encampments in the city, even as the policy has come under intense scrutiny. ..Read More
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
