Mayor Eric Adams holds a press conference to discuss affordable and supportive housing in City Hall Park on May 1st, 20222.Mayor Eric Adams holds a press conference to discuss affordable and supportive housing in City Hall Park on May 1st, 20222.
"We are facing a homelessness crisis and an affordable housing crisis," said Adams. "By repurposing underused hotels, we can make affordable, permanent housing available to families, seniors, and any New Yorker in need, including our neighbors experiencing homelessness." We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle the problem of homelessness and affordable housing through hotel conversions.
I like the idea, but instead of hotels, it should luxury apartments that are either sitting vacant, or have a tenant that only lives there for less than a month.
Why does this article not mention the hotel in the Financial District that was being used for a single room occupancy homeless shelter? The one the administration abruptly discontinued? Do Gothamist reporters read each other?
Adams: all talk and no action.