Those who have experienced homelessness and their supporters marched through the streets of Lower Manhattan Wednesday to demand an end to Mayor Eric Adams’ encampment sweeps and pushed for fast-track to housing.
A collective of homeless rights advocates looked to close July Homeless Rights Month by leading a march from City Hall with a message aimed directly at the mayor himself.
“We’re here to send a message to our mayor and the administration and to the city of New York, that there are too many homeless people living in New York City today,” Valerie Reyes-Jimenez of Housing Works said. “He needs to just stop the sweets, stop criminalizing homelessness. We need to get the cops out of outreach.”