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On a frigid Wednesday morning in March, Marg Curran scanned the streets of East Harlem through the windows of a Toyota Rav4. Curran and Alexandra Long, in the passenger seat, kept an eye out for tents, electric-blue tarps draped over discarded furniture, shopp ..Read More

The site opened to people moving off the streets and subways on March 28, amid significant backlash to ongoing homeless sweeps and calls by advocates and some elected officials for the city to use hotel rooms as low-barrier, private spaces for people bedding d ..Read More

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

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

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has continued removing homeless encampments in the city, even as the policy has come under intense scrutiny. ..Read More

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 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

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

Mayor Adams calls to remove homeless encampments from NYC, but advocates say it won’t help. ..Read More