Mayor Eric Adams says the community must do its part to house the homeless. Yet his own Department of Homeless Services is canceling planned shelters in the face of community pushback. In Adams' first month in office, his administration put the brakes on three shelters that were on the verge of opening. But the heaviest burden of sheltering the homeless still falls on neighborhoods that are predominantly African American and Latinx and saddled with the highest rates of poverty, THE CITY's examination found. And despite it all, shelters are very dangerous. Drug deals and use, violence, physical, gang-affiliated, and sexual assaults go on in the shelter system.

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