Right. The perennial debate is: does the right to housing really undermine what people really need? Does it kick the housing box on the street? Is that hiding a problem? Yes, it is. But how much does it cost not to? «One Big Winner of Eric Adams` Rare Mayoral Veto: the Owner of Zero Bond» by Christopher Robbins of Hell Gate: «Last January, in his first two weeks in office, Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a bill to enforce zoning laws in some of Manhattan`s most expensive neighborhoods. Explaining the mayor`s rare veto — the first in eight years — Adams noted that it was «small piece of legislation» tied to a much larger and larger legislative package, the SoHo/NoHo rezoning, which he supported. «We have heard concerns about this specific legislation and will ensure that we can work together productively in the coming months to improve it,» Adams said in a statement. One notable person who probably benefited from this veto: Scott Sartiano, the owner of Zero Bond, the members-only nightclub where our mayor regularly holds courts. «The prospect of a city without shelter would inevitably mean an explosion in the number of homeless people on the streets,» he said. «The homelessness crisis we`re seeing in Los Angeles, San Francisco and cities in the northwest Midwest would overwhelm all five counties if housing rights were weakened or eliminated.» As always, however, the real reason San Francisco is not entitled to protection is complicated. When the homelessness crisis hit the streets of San Francisco in the mid-1980s, the city was right next door to the rest of the country helping people (namely, a roof, a bed, and a sandwich). The dominant idea was to give homeless people a place to rest and recover so they could get back on their feet quickly.

In a brief but fierce battle, the New York State Supreme Court finally ruled in favor of Robert Callahan and the rest of the homeless population in December 1979. The city and state have been ordered to immediately provide emergency shelter to homeless men in light of the harsh winter that is approaching. Almost instantly, the homeless disappeared from the streets to the makeshift shelters the city could create. What about the right to housing, but only for real city dwellers. You must prove that you have lived here for at least one year. We don`t need people who come from elsewhere to take advantage of us. New York City Mayor Eric Adams raised his eyebrows Wednesday as he suggested the city`s decades-old «right to housing» needed to be reassessed in the face of an influx of asylum seekers into the city`s homeless shelter system. In November 2011, Mayor Bloomberg launched the most aggressive attack on the housing rights of New York`s homeless since the Giuliani and Pataki years. The Bloomberg administration has proposed new eligibility rules for shelters for single homeless adults that would effectively deny protection to thousands of homeless New York City residents, many of whom live with mental illness and other serious health conditions. (More information on the proposed rules can be found here.) The law is not an administrative policy or a law created by a statute; This is the result of years of litigation in three separate cases that ended with the city`s agreement or order to provide protection in all five counties. However, there is no evidence that abolishing the right to housing would facilitate access to permanent housing, the developers point out. There is no such thing.

However, this idea is not new. Adams has a particularly dire situation, but what if there was another Hurricane Sandy? We will have a climate catastrophe that will create a similar need for an emergency plan to create emergency shelters. New York`s sprawling protection system costs billions of dollars a year. But they are shelters where some homeless people prefer to stay, although going out to apartments is rare. While some are offered permanent supportive housing, many are forced to leave the shelter after 30 to 60 days. People like the navigation centres and the city have committed to maintaining and opening more navigation centres, which at least three others have planned to do over the next two years, but there must be housing if real progress is to be made. The Homeless Coalition would almost certainly have something to say about that. As a court-appointed observer of the city`s adult shelter system, the coalition has the power to conduct makeshift visits to shelters. The coalition also began overseeing the family protection system under former Mayor Bill de Blasio. The mayor`s comments came after the Legal Aid Society and the Homeless Coalition reported Tuesday that 60 men were denied shelters overnight after arriving at the detention center for one man, which the groups described as a «serious violation of the law and court order.» The short answer is no, and it`s probably a no-brainer to see why.