To the Editor: Does anyone really think that Mayor Adams can solve the problem of homeless people on the subways by providing them with housing? Placing people with serious psychological problems in houses or hotels in the neighborhoods will only transfer the problem and danger to the public from the trains to the streets and houses near the homeless shelters.
The relevant question is just how many of the homeless have only one complex problem—that is, homelessness/poverty—and how many have psychological problems that make them a danger to themselves and others?
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