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When Mayor Eric Adams announced a new policy directing police and EMTs to forcibly send more people to the hospital for psychiatric evaluations, he called it a “moral mandate.” For Ibrahim Ayu, the directive sounded more like a mandate to traumatize New Yo ..Read More

Nearly 2,300 homeless people were moved into shelters from the subways as part of Mayor Adams’ outreach initiatives through August — but more than two-thirds of them left the city’s care within a week of being admitted, according to data obtained the Dai ..Read More

Nine-year-old Ameerah remembers when her commute to school was a five-minute walk. That was before her family left their Queens home for a shelter in another part of the borough. Read more… ..Read More

Some homeless New Yorkers say they would rather live on the streets than stay in a city shelter, even as Mayor Eric Adams launches a plan to involuntarily move homeless people suspected of having mental illness to hospitals. Read more… ..Read More

I’ve been organizing in Black and brown communities in New York State for 13 years. The biggest issue I hear again and again from these communities: housing. Read more… ..Read More

I’ve been organizing in Black and brown communities in New York State for 13 years. The biggest issue I hear again and again from these communities: housing. Read more… ..Read More

Though Mayor Eric Adams estimated that 25,000 hotel rooms could be turned into supportive and affordable housing, only one building has been converted so far. And it was in the works before the plan. Read more… ..Read More

Last month, Joseph Bryant walked into a leasing office in Brooklyn to start his search for an apartment. At 35, he is eager to find a place of his own and, more than that, a welcoming space for his kids to visit. But moments later, he walked back out, having l ..Read More

“Study after study has shown that stable housing is the linchpin for successful reentry and for creating strong social bonds. These outcomes, in turn, lead to a substantially reduced likelihood of facing a new criminal charge, which—contrary to the sca ..Read More