New York City planning to remove homeless encampments from streets

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>New York City officials are planning to remove makeshift shelters set up by homeless people on the streets&comma; mirroring similar efforts in other liberal metropolises that had previously tolerated the encampments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mayor Eric Adams disclosed the initiative in an interview with The New York Times on Friday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>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 behaviour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re going to rid the encampments off our street and we’re going to place people in healthy living conditions with wraparound services&comma;” he told the Times&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m telling my city agencies to do an analysis block by block&comma; district by district&comma; identify where the encampments are&comma; then execute a plan to give services to the people who are in the encampments&comma; then to dismantle those encampments&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Adams did not say where people living in the encampments would go&comma; and acknowledged officials cannot force anyone to go to a homeless shelter&period; He expected the effort to begin within two weeks&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We can’t stop an individual from sleeping on the street based on law&comma; and we’re not going to violate that law&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But you can’t build a miniature house made out of cardboard on the streets&period; That’s inhumane&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In its most recent estimate in January 2021&comma; the city said about 1&comma;100 people were living in parks and on the streets – a number seen by many advocates as an undercount&period; Most of the roughly 50&comma;000 homeless people in the city stay in shelters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>People who are homeless and their advocates have said removing street encampments only results in people moving from one spot to another&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>An increasing number of cities across the country including Los Angeles&comma; San Francisco&comma; Seattle and Washington&comma; DC&comma; have been removing encampments and taking other steps to address homelessness that would have been unheard of years ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed78d37ed8f">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed78d37ed8f'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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