Eric Adams says officials will place people in ‘healthy living conditions with wraparound services’ as homelessness debate swirls
The Times said the number of people living in parks and on the streets was estimated at at around 1,100, though that figure was likely a serious undercount.
“When you have those utilizing tunnel systems without any form of interaction of law enforcement, you could have a person that’s not only there to deal with the dangers of being homeless on the tracks, but you also have the potential person that’s trying to do something harmful,” he said. Craig Hughes, a social worker at the Urban Justice Center, told the New York Times that such efforts leave “people more precarious than they were beforehand”.
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