Mayor Eric Adams touted a $650 million plan to tackle homelessness and get mentally ill New Yorkers off the streets and out of subways during his State of the City speech Thursday – as he begged Albany for more help tackling the Big Apple’s ongoing crisis.
The ambitious, five-year proposal — which is set to include a special new facility to house and treat mentally ill New Yorkers — follows a spate of frightening underground attacks that have plagued the transit system of late.
The “innovative” new facility, which will be run by Health + Hospitals, will offer shelter, and psychiatric care and substance abuse treatment for homeless mentally ill New Yorkers — and help them secure permanent housing, Adams said.
“Subways, serious mental illness, and shelters: that is how we make a renewed commitment to tackling street homelessness,” Hizzoner said during an annual address at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater that was filled with all the pomp and circumstance of a campaign event…