Why Some Homeless Choose The Streets Over Shelters
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MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2021/07/29: Protesters seen blocking the street behind a banner reading HOUSING NOT SHELTERS at the protest. Members of a NYC homeless advocacy coalition staged a direct action outside City Hall to call out Mayor de Blasios Broken Record on Homelessness. Some participants engaged in an act of civil disobedience, resulting in 9 arrests. The group demand that the Mayor and city agencies act immediately to halt inhumane and poorly executed transfers of single New Yorkers experiencing homelessness from COVID-safe hotels into the unsafe congregate shelter system; stop NYPD street sweeps of people into the shelter system; and for the Mayor to take immediate action on Intro 146, a bill which require the City to pay higher rates in its rental assistance voucher program for homeless New Yorkers, which are currently so low as to be useless for the majority of people who qualify. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
