What Next - The Last Time NYC Tried to Hospitalize the Homeless
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🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In an effort to address New York’s growing problem of unhoused people living on the streets, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city would start involuntarily hospitalizing people. It’s a strategy the city tried back in the ‘80s as well. Why didn’t it work then?
Guest: Sam Tsemberis, founder and executive director of Pathways to Housing, and associate clinical professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA.
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| 0:41.1 | Good morning, New York City. |
| 0:49.3 | A couple weeks back, the mayor of New York City had this press conference that's been reverberating |
| 0:54.8 | ever since. |
| 0:55.8 | It was about a problem a lot of urban leaders are facing right now. |
| 0:59.7 | Homelessness. |
| 1:00.7 | We see them every day and our city workers are familiar with their stories. |
| 1:06.3 | The number of homeless New Yorkers is about as high as it's ever been. |
| 1:11.0 | Winter is setting in and Eric Adams, a police officer turned politician, is clearly feeling |
| 1:17.3 | the need to do something. |
| 1:19.1 | They cycle in and out of hospitals and jails. |
| 1:22.8 | But New Yorkers rightly expect our city to help them and help them we will. |
| 1:28.7 | To help, the mayor proposed, involuntary confinement. |
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