How Unhoused New Yorkers Feel About Mayor Adams' Homelessness Initiatives



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How Unhoused New Yorkers Feel About Mayor Adams’ Homelessness Initiatives

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  1. Get a f**ing job and stop blaming others for your problems.

  2. So the mayors plan us to rip the thin layer of life protecting shelter away from the homeless until they die of exposure. Killing the homeless will not solve the issues.
    Build homes and rent control will!!

  3. Not fair to blame the victims or lawman trying to help. He ought to be forced to do a ride along and see how he likes scraping dead people off the pavement. It's contact death coming with fentanyl meth smokers all over.

  4. Y can't we take all these containers we have in the US and make houses out of them. This is crazy.

  5. Vote Democrats has consequence

  6. Stop calling them unhoused people, transients and just call them what they are crackheads. If Democrat run cities like sf weren’t giving homeless people $600 a month and $200 in food stamps they wouldn’t be flooded with homeless people. Homeless people are going to the most expensive cities in America and demanding housing there for free just doesn’t make sense house them in cheaper places not in the most expensive places in America

  7. The shelters are awful and are sometimes worse than the streets. The corruption is palpable as well as the many grifts done by the staff and security. Be wary of the racism and homophobia and massive theft. Will never be homeless in NYC again!

  8. The shelters are awful and are sometimes worse than the streets. The corruption is palpable as well as the many grifts done by the staff and security. Be wary of the racism and homophobia and massive theft. Will never be homeless in NYC again!

  9. Maybe they should have a place for those homeless before taking there stuff!

  10. I've been homeless and am right on the edge every month but the problem is that a large percentage of homeless people are career homeless. They need mental health care because here in Missouri they are the ones who bleed programs ment to help with no intent of changing their situation and continually get these programs shut down as the appear unsuccessful.

  11. Don't be fooled he is white man in black man's body!

  12. Instead of helping them out..democrats decided to change their name from homeless..to unhoused. That was the best they could do with your tax dollars

  13. "She found a safe space called 'Anarchy Row' " ?
    Doesn't sound too safe

  14. Homelessness is not as big problem in conservative cities, but there is an explanation for it. The main reason for homelessness is fentanyl, and other drugs addiction believe it or not. If you do not believe me, you can find Michael Shellenberger's interviews here on YouTube. Liberal cities have laws that attract homeless because addicts can support their addiction there more easily. The main one is you are allowed to steal from stores for up to $950 in Cali, and no one will bother you, police will not even come even if they had an officer available. In my town the law says you can steal up to $500 worth of items, and that nothing, so there are no as many homeless like in Cali but we have almost as good camping weather as southern Cali. I go to Texas, and they do not have such law that you can just steal from stores as you wish, so their addicts migrates to the west coast where they can simply support their addiction. Stealing from stores, they call it boosting.

  15. Go to long island, find a job in Starbucks or something, no room for you in the city

  16. The mayor of New York the way you take care of the homeless what a mess you don't even listen when somebody tells you that's not going to work yeah we know you can do better he claims he's understands how can we take him seriously when he does this yeah the stuff you've been saying during the shooting in Buffalo I actually had to change the channel yeah I had to find a news when you weren't talking cuz I think you're disgusting

  17. Equal protection of our own State at-will employment laws for unemployment compensation can help with our homeless problems in a market friendly manner.

  18. the mathematics are very simple: price gouge 99% of the population onto the streets & then criminalize homelessness…

    adams is very obvsly a shill for private prisons…& itd be lame to think that black rock & the other rent gougers arent getting some kind of kickback…

    any twit can see where this is leading to…leave while u still can!! ☠️…

  19. Democrat run cities. Real problems. No solutions.

    Republican run cities. No problems. Real solutions.

  20. Please, would it be so hard to get extra large garbage bags to pack the homeless belongings and tag them somewhere so that they can go and pick it up? Just a little more Human dignity…common courtesy. Just saying Mr. Mayor.
    Is there no empty land for a tent city until permanent housing is available?

  21. Unhoused? Evicted? Thrown out? Kicked out?
    Subway is a house like a bus or shipping container or mobile home or van.

  22. All boils down to no money

  23. I personally have zero tolerance for the homeless. I live in Portland and tell you for a fact that the homeless are out stealing from people to get their drug money and robbing people. At the same time, there is major gun violence due to the drug dealing with the homeless using the drugs. Homelessness, drugs, crimes, and gun violence all come hand and hand. We pay taxes and should not have to shut down our businesses because of campers taking over our streets. Far as I'm concerned ban them from every city and give them plots out in the middle of nowhere to have their crack dens away from the rest of us…

  24. Unhoused. Y'all need to quit that bs.
    Those that term now mean that you don't have homelessness in NYC?

  25. Yup its all over the country. Yet we give billions for another countries war.

  26. Justice has come to mean Vengence. which belongs only to God. Whining declined….

  27. Our new government is inverted totalitarianism and managed democracy. You need to look this up! Corporations are people too and they don't give a flying f about you! They rule this place and this is part of the way they rule. It's Uncle Sam's war on the poor and they're trying to actually say that people who can't afford these insane housing prices in this insane economy are mentally ill and or drug addicts and just not very good people. Remember also we're living under the prosperity Gospel which replaced the Gospel of Jesus. Nowadays these people that call themselves Christians believe that if they have money God loves them more and if you don't God doesn't love you so you're getting what you deserve. It's very twisted and sick

  28. Ppl will no longer be able to pay landlords thousands each month. It got ridiculous! Tiny houses stacked in honeycomb shapes will house thousands in a relatively small area. Even with the usual wide driveway in front of the house, like in a trailer court, will give more feeling of room. The usual has got to change. Time now for the unusual.

  29. Unhoused? Does that mean HOMELESS or just somebody not inside a house?

  30. 50,000 unhoused yet the dems allow an invasion of millions at the border. Never ending crisis this country is in. Those invading get food shelter education and healthcare. For free.

    Oh and don’t forget the free cellphone and free travel to anywhere in the country.

    And I’m neither dem nor rep but this democratic way is ruining the country.

  31. The mayor, policy makers, need to listen to the homeless regarding their needs, first and foremost.

  32. New Yorkers deserve everything they get

  33. They have no money, because they had to send some cash as foreign aid to other countries.

  34. Unhoused? Do you mean homeless? Is that just woke-speak for homeless?

  35. Please help out my brothers and sisters who are living on the streets homeless… 🙏

  36. "Unhoused"…..guess thats easiers on the ears.

  37. "Unhoused?" …DoubleSpeak taken to the extreme.

  38. Being in a shelter was one of the worst experiences of my life. Never been in prison. But I imagine it’s similar. They have you at their mercy, and they shove Jesus down your throat. The overseers are corrupt and they seem to enjoy torturing the tenants. They do nothing to help get out of the situation. Then throw you out onto the streets again to be trapped in the same cycle.