Mayor Adams’ homeless encampment sweeps reached new high last fall
in the city, his administration continued to ratchet up police-involved sweeps of homeless encampments last year, new data analyzed by Gothamist shows.
Fowler said the city had also increased the number of shelter beds that have lower barriers to entry, and put twice as many people from these beds into permanent housing. He added that more than 98% of clean-ups were “successful” and were not re-established. “I think we're going to see an alarming amount of resources going into just literally sweeping homelessness under the rug,” Nurse said.
Druce said the sweeps — which often result in officials discarding people’s belongings — do more harm than good and can be traumatizing for homeless people, setting them back from the path toward housing. “They need to make a living, I know that. But you need a certain rule and a certain place, right? And you need to respect the local business,” John said.
Still, the city ramped up sweeps late last summer, which was when the highest number of sweeps were conducted during the period that Gothamist examined. It conducted 534 in August, 471 in September and 513 in October, data shows. The number of sweeps dropped to an average of 300 a month in the winter. About a third of the encampment sites that were cleared were visited more than 10 times.
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