Mayor Adams weathered a torrent of criticism Wednesday for his administration’s legal push to diminish the city’s right-to-shelter law, with detractors calling the move misguided and demanding the mayor reconsider.
The city’s “troubling” request to a state Supreme Court judge to revisit the right-to-shelter law “appears to pursue an elimination of more than 40 years of legal protections for our city’s most vulnerable” and “leaves in question whether New Yorkers will be left to sleep on our streets, parks, roadway shoulder exits and subways,” Council Speaker Adrienne Adams and Deputy Speaker Diana Ayala said in a statement.
“It’s beyond disturbing that so much effort is being spent on rolling back protections for all New Yorkers, instead of implementing immediate and long-term solutions that can help us avoid and move out of shelters.”
