Mayor Eric Adams has vowed to clear 150 encampments across the city, but homeless advocates say, without housing, it will do little to alleviate the problem.
One homeless outreach worker was at the site of the sweep alongside a half of a dozen police and sanitation workers. The woman said she’d be able to offer single rooms to the people whose belongings were cleared, but left before anything had come through. By that evening, Medina said she’d gotten back in touch to say she’d found him a room in Manhattan and he was waiting for a ride there. He said he felt optimistic he might have a bed to sleep in that night.
Parker Wolf, 22, who’d been living under the highway with her boyfriend for nearly two years said she had no plans of going into a city shelter because she didn’t want to be separated from her partner. The pair planned to stay outside Monday night with the remainder of the blankets they’d salvaged.Clearing homeless encampments is not a new tactic. It’s been used by city agencies for years.
In Adams’ first month in office city agencies conducted 134 sweeps, according to data shared by the Safety Net Project, a drop from prior months, the most recent data available. 📣📣🧵NEW: Data released via FOIL shows that in the last months of the de Blasio administration, NYC conducted more than 4,700 sweeps.Ignoring CDC guidance, NYC significantly increased sweeps throughout COVID.
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