Mayor Eric Adams said 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 and in Adams' first month in office, his administration put the brakes on three shelters that were on the verge of opening. But falls in a neighborhood that is predominantly African-American and Latinx and saddled with the highest rates of poverty the city examined found. And despite it, most shelters are very dangerous. Drug deals and the use of drugs go on in there, as violence, physical and mental assaults, gangs, and sexual assaults.