Mayor orders New York’s homeless camps dismantled ‘within two weeks’
by Edward Helmore from US news | The Guardian on (#5XHGA)
Eric Adams says officials will place people in healthy living conditions with wraparound services' as debate swirls
New York mayor Eric Adams has ordered that every homeless encampment in the city should be taken down within two weeks, arguing that the situation is not only dangerous to those living there but to the city itself.
We're going to rid the encampments off our street and we're going to place people in healthy living conditions with wraparound services," Adams said Friday, though he provided few details on exactly how that extra provision would be provided for them.
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