New York City officials are planning to remove makeshift shelters set up by homeless people on city streets, mirroring similar efforts in other liberal metropolises that had previously tolerated the encampments.
with The New York Times on Friday, but provided few details. It comes a month after he announced a push to remove homeless people from the city's sprawling subway system in response to assaults and other aggressive behavior.
"We’re going to rid the encampments off our street and we’re going to place people in healthy living conditions with wraparound services," he told the Times. "I’m telling my city agencies to do an analysis block by block, district by district, identify where the encampments are, then execute a plan to give services to the people who are in the encampments, then to dismantle those encampments.
Adams did not say where people living in the encampments would go, and acknowledged officials cannot force anyone to go to a homeless shelter. He expected the effort to begin within two weeks. "We can’t stop an individual from sleeping on the street based on law, and we’re not going to violate that law," he said. "But you can’t build a miniature house made out of cardboard on the streets. That’s inhumane."
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