Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Lower Manhattan on Tuesday to defend the city’s right-to-shelter mandate, as Public Advocate Jumaane Williams accused city and state leaders of using the migrant crisis to undermine the policy and turn New Yorkers against one another.
Faith leaders, housing advocacy groups and other organizations assembled outside the National Museum of the American Indian, located at 1 Bowling Green, where they bemoaned efforts from Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul to cut the right-to-shelter rule — a mandate that requires the city to provide unhoused New Yorkers with a place to stay.
