Less than 5% of homeless visits by NYC task force end in shelter placement

From March 2022 to April 2023, just 166 people living in encampments out of 3,408 “engagements” by the city’s encampment task force entered shelters.

An Adams administration task force trumpeted as the solution to the scourge of homeless encampments dotting the city has proven largely ineffective in moving vagrants into shelters, according to new data and critics.

“As we’ve always said, if you want people without homes to go somewhere else, give them someplace to go,” he said. Members of the group, however, returned hours later, frustrated residents said, and quickly began furnishing Columbus Avenue once again with their belongings, including navy couch cushions and a Friends-themed bedsheet — and set yellow caution tape to ward off their enemies.

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