Jordan Neely, the young Black man who was killed on the NYC subway after being deemed a threat, grappled with both homelessness and mental health crises. Advocates say the criminalization of homelessness may have acted as a precursor to his death.
, a witness who recorded the incident on video, said Neely screamed, “I’m tired already. I don’t care if I go to jail and get locked up. I’m ready to die.”
According to his aunt Carolyn Neely, Jordan had spiraled into “a complete mess” at the age of 14 in 2007 after his mother, Christie,“It had a big impact on him,” Carolyn Neely, who described herself as his closest relative,. “He developed depression and it grew and became more serious. He was schizophrenic, PTSD. Doctors knew his condition and he needed to be treated for that.
Advocates like Cerisier have also called out systematic overlappings and “gaping holes” that leave people vulnerable to homelessness, such as broken foster care systems, a lack of government funding, landlord discrimination in the state’s emergency housing voucher system and understaffed Department of Homeless Services workers who face an insurmountable workload to secure housing and resources for people who need them.
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