As he continues a two-week blitz to dismantle 150 homeless encampment sites across the city, Mayor Eric Adams defended his administration’s handling of NYC homelessness Tuesday while unveiling a new 80-bed safe haven homeless facility in the South Bronx.
“We know we’re on the right path … and we’ve normalized people living on the street in cardboard boxes,” he said. “I know folks are critical and saying ‘there goes that po-po’ … but at the end of the day when you finally notice that you’re not going to have encampments everywhere, people on your streets everywhere, you’re going take this moment and understand I made us a healthy city.”
