At Bronx Welcome Center, NYC Tests New Approach to Shelter for Street Homeless Posted on April 15, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in City Limits 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
Protests Mount Over Mayor’s ‘Cruel’ Homeless Encampment Sweeps Posted on April 12, 2022 by Zoe Johnson 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 Zoe Johnson 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 Zoe Johnson 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 Zoe Johnson 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 Zoe Johnson 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 Zoe Johnson 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 Zoe Johnson 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 Zoe Johnson 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
