New York’s Upper West Side — likely the most liberal neighborhood in the U.S. — organized and hired a lawyer to get 300 homeless men evicted from the Lucerne Hotel, where the NYC social services department had moved them as refugees from COVID-19.
Neighbors complained the men “menaced” them, urinated, defecated, and used drugs in the streets. Is the ouster of the homeless a triumph of American civic action, or a deep insight into the actual morality of America’s “compassionate” Progressives?
Background Resource:
N.Y. Will Move Homeless Men from Liberal Neighborhood After Backlash
[The New York Times, September 8, 2020]
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