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Maya Yang

Mayor pushes plan to force homeless New Yorkers with mental illness to seek help

The funeral of Jordan Neely in Harlem on Friday.
The funeral of Jordan Neely in Harlem on Friday. Photograph: Edna Leshowitz/Zuma/Shutterstock

New York mayor Eric Adams has warned that there are “more Jordan Neelys out there”, invoking the name of the unhoused man who was killed on the subway earlier in May as the Democratic mayor pushed his idea to force people with mental illness to access help.

In an interview with MSNBC on Sunday, Adams called a dearth of such services – particularly for the city’s unhoused population – “a very real issue”.

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