Real Estate Is Funding Eric Adams’s Fifth Homeless ‘Outreach’ Initiative. What’s the End Game?
The partnership split homeless advocates: Some welcomed the additional dollars, arguing “more is better,” while others predicted they would function mainly to keep people off corporate property.
Chris Gelardi · August 2, 2022

A homeless outreach worker watches a man who had refused city services move his belongings during an encampment sweep on August 2 in Manhattan. | Chris Gelardi / New York Focus

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