NYC Mayor Eric Adams Orders Clearing Of Homeless Encampments
New York City MayorEric Adams (D) ordered the clear encampments of homeless people across New York City. Police have removed around 150 encampments over two weeks. “I’m not going to have an inhumane city that allows people to live in an inhumane dangerous environment,” Adams said. In Adams’s citywide plan, the NYPD will offer shelter to the homeless before giving them the warning to vacate. Although Adams acknowledges that the city doesn’t have the power to stop people from living on the street, he wants to limit the building on encampments. “We cannot tolerate these makeshift, unsafe houses o...