New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that his administration is going to clear all the unhoused New Yorkers from the streets in two weeks.
Adams said he would remove unhoused people from the subways.
Adams told The New York Times in an interview that he was planning to place people in healthy living conditions with wraparound services.
A spokesman for Adams said that the plan is to connect unhoused people to shelters or other options, according to a local outlet.
Unhoused people can't be forced to live in shelters according to the mayor.
He said that they could not stop someone from sleeping on the street based on the law. That is inhumane.
Shelters have been seen as dangerous and inhumane by many people.
Adams doubled down on his plan when reporters asked about the safety concerns in shelters at a press conference Tuesday.
We can't tolerate these unsafe houses on the side of highways in front of schools and in parks in trees. This is not acceptable, and it is something I will not allow to happen.
—The Recount (@therecount) March 29, 2022
There is nothing dignified about people living in the streets.
A survey that is thought to be an undercount estimates the number of unhoused New Yorkers.
According to the Coalition for the Homeless, there were over 48,000 unhoused New Yorkers as of January 2022.
There is no accurate measurement of New York City's unsheltered homeless population, and recent City surveys underestimate the number of homeless New Yorkers, according to the coalition's website.
The policy director of the coalition said that sweeps and policing are not the answer to homelessness.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has urged government officials to hold off on homelessness sweeps as they can contribute to the spread of COVID-19.
The city has pushed on with sweeps.
A man in a video said that you were kicking them while they were already down.
Representatives for Adams did not respond to the request for comment.
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