Mayor Eric Adams recently released a proposal to build 15,000 units of “supportive housing”—individual housing where residents can access on-site services—by 2028. Are his plans enough to tackle New York City’s enormous housing crisis?
gave orders to dismantle every homeless encampment in New York. Within days, “task-force teams” of police officers, sanitation workers, and homeless-outreach agents cleared out hundreds of sites, in all five boroughs. At a string of encampments under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, where more than a dozen people had been living, city workers confiscated tents, mattresses, shoes, coats, hundreds of hypodermic needles, and at least one rocking chair.
While all this was happening, a seventy-one-year-old man named Jose Hernandez began staying at Anarchy Row. Hernandez, who said he was a military veteran, would often sleep beside a woman named Amy Jordan, his partner of several years. Hernandez was a gruff old guy, and a heavy drinker, but Anarchy Row is a relatively welcoming place. He quickly came to be considered a member of the community. The other residents called him Joe.
Jordan, who sat in a rickety plastic chair, told me the story of how she’d met Joe under the Williamsburg Bridge. “This man approaches me, and he asked me if I was hungry,” she said. “He was watching me and I didn’t know.” Jordan is fifty-one. She grew up on the Lower East Side, and speaks with the local lilt. After she met Joe, the two of them spent several years together. “He loved me in his own way,” she said. “I used to take care of him.
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