$171M in help for the h'less

The city’s proposed budget includes $171 million for homeless services — including a chunk to provide temporary housing for those rousted in the recent crackdown on street encampments, Mayor Adams said Sunday.

During a press conference at City Hall, Adams took a jab at his predecessor, Mayor Bill de Blasio, while saying part of the money would provide 900 more Safe Haven beds in facilities offering temporary space for those homeless who shun the city’s notoriously dangerous and decrepit shelters.

“What we are announcing today is the largest investment in the city’s history in support of vulnerable New Yorkers experiencing homeless on our streets and subways,” Adams said. “The previous administration talked about these beds. We are funding these beds.”

Adams last month began sending out city workers to dismantle homeless encampments.

Although just five people accepted outreach workers’ invitations to a shelter during the first weeks of the effort, Adams has repeatedly defended the push, declaring that living on mattresses and under tents in public spaces is “unhumane” and not “dignified.”

The Safe Havens are among a group of small facilities with few regulations about who can stay in them. Designed for homeless who resist going to shelters, they offer on-site medical, mental-health and substance-abuse services.

The additional beds will bring the city’s total to more than 4,000, according to City Hall. Five hundred of the new beds were previously announced in a subway-safety plan released earlier this year.