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Homeless advocates rail against Adams plan to take encampments off the sidewalks of New York

Posted on March 27, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in amNY
Homeless rights advocates and organizations admonished Mayor Eric Adams after he announced his administration’s plan to remove homeless encampments from the streets of New York. ..Read More

Mayor Eric Adams plans to clear NYC of makeshift homeless encampments, sparking criticism from advocates

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in New York Daily News
A city homeless advocacy group, in a Saturday broadside, blasted Mayor Adams over his plan to remove people from the makeshift outdoor encampments now called home by hundreds of the dispossessed. ..Read More

Adams says he’s kicking homeless New Yorkers out of their encampments. Where will they go?

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in Gothamist
Just weeks after embarking on a campaign to boot unsheltered New Yorkers out of the subway system, Mayor Eric Adams says he’s removing their encampments from the streets as well. ..Read More

Lost and forgotten: Record number of homeless died in New York last year, report finds

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in amNY
A record number of New York homeless people died last year, according to a new report by the group Coalition for the Homeless, who called on the city and state to fund more housing units and remove cops from outreach responses to the Big Apple’s unhoused. ..Read More

Overnight on the trains: The subway safety plan a month in

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in NY1
At around 1 a.m. Tuesday, a group of NYPD officers was taking on some new tasks. An officer taps on the metal poll inside a subway car. “Can you have a seat please? You need shelter services?” he asks a man lying down. The person slowly sits up. ..Read More

NYC’s homeless population higher than official estimate as city faces shortage of safe shelters: report

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in New York Daily News
The number of homeless people sleeping on New York’s streets and subways is higher than city officials estimate — and the shabby state of the city’s shelters is in part to blame, said a report published Tuesday by the Coalition for the Homeless. ..Read More

Man suspected of stalking, killing homeless people arrested

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — A gunman suspected of stalking homeless people asleep on the streets of New York City and Washington, D.C., killing at least two people and wounding three others, was arrested early Tuesday, police said. ..Read More

Number of homeless people killed in NYC is increasing

Posted on March 15, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in Gothamist
The killer police say targeted homeless people in New York City and Washington D.C. is part of a disturbing trend: A growing number of unhoused people being murdered in the city. ..Read More

‘Coalition for the Homeless’ director speaks out on shootings of homeless men

Posted on March 14, 2022 by Zoe Johnson in abc7NY
Policy director for “Coalition for the Homeless” Jacquelyn Simone, digs deeper into the disturbing acts of violence by a gunman who has targeted homeless men in New York City and Washington D.C. ..Read More

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