{"id":408438,"date":"2022-02-22T05:49:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T02:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/eric-adams-homeless-plan-is-safer-for-us-and-better-for-them\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T05:49:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T02:49:05","slug":"eric-adams-homeless-plan-is-safer-for-us-and-better-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/eric-adams-homeless-plan-is-safer-for-us-and-better-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"#Eric Adams&#8217; homeless plan is safer for us and better for them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Eric Adams&#8217; homeless plan is safer for us and better for them<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Do the so-called \u201cadvocates for the homeless\u201d really want what\u2019s best for them?<\/p>\n<p>We ask as Mayor Adams shows the political courage to do what his predecessor wouldn\u2019t: Make our subways safer and more welcoming to all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo more smoking, no more doing drugs, no more sleeping, no more doing barbecues on the subway system. No more just doing whatever you want,\u201d Adams said as his subway safety program launched Monday. \u201cNo. Those days are over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hear, hear!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, advocacy groups are gearing up for action, promising lawsuits in pursuit of some phantom \u201cright\u201d to sleep on the subways. When Gov. Andrew Cuomo closed the subways for cleaning overnight during the pandemic, the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2022\/2\/8\/22924337\/crews-stall-trains-over-shopping-cart-worries-as-new-rule-goes-unheeded\">Urban Justice Center\u2019s Safety Net Project sued<\/a> to keep the homeless there. Mayor Bill de Blasio even put in charge of homeless services Steven Banks, the former chief attorney for Legal Aid who frequently sued the city on that topic.<\/p>\n<p>But what\u2019s compassionate, or even right, about letting people sleep on the subway? It\u2019s filthy and dehumanizing. Some people don\u2019t want to go to shelters, yes \u2014 often because they are not in their right minds because of mental illness or substance addiction. Letting them \u201cdo whatever they want\u201d is not the answer.<\/p>\n<p>The argument that the shelters are somehow less safe than a subway station has never held water. Nevertheless, Adams and Gov. Hochul understand that improving the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> safety net will help, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-announces-major-investments-improve-psychiatric-support-those-crisis\">Hochul is proposing $27.5 million<\/a> in additional funding for psychiatric beds statewide among other funding.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/220221_Yang_NYP___Subway_Homeless_13.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Homeless on the 1 train 34th street platform at Penn Station in Manhattan. \" class=\"wp-image-21289138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/220221_Yang_NYP___Subway_Homeless_13.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/220221_Yang_NYP___Subway_Homeless_13.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/220221_Yang_NYP___Subway_Homeless_13.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/220221_Yang_NYP___Subway_Homeless_13.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a $27.5 million annual investment to increase funding for inpatient psychiatric beds.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These are all good moves. Will the politicians and advocates who claim they care to concentrate on improving treatment and shelter, or will they push baseless lawsuits hoping to keep a status quo that punishes the homeless and New Yorkers in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s one case where a woman has been living under a stairway in the system for months. This is not acceptable,\u201d Adams said in his speech. \u201cThat is not dignity. That is disgusting. And that\u2019s not who we are as a city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We couldn\u2019t agree more. 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We ask as Mayor Adams shows the political courage to do what his predecessor wouldn\u2019t: Make our subways safer and more welcoming to all. \u201cNo more smoking, no more doing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":408439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/homeless-subway.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[125963,4998,43,66147,72473,70549],"class_list":["post-408438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-21-22","tag-crime","tag-editorial","tag-eric-adams","tag-homeless","tag-subway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}