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Warming centers are essential during cold weather and during snow storms for unsheltered people (not sure this needs to be said yet here we are) - but the total capacity of these three warming centers is only 75 people. (1/x) https://twitter.com/SafetyNetUJC/status/1356262737131798531
With EDs, libraries, and other places folks can typically go to stay warm shuttered due fo COVID, we MUST do better. Overnight, the subways will remain closed, further limiting the potential options for people to stay safe. (2/x)
We are now nearly a year into a pandemic and knew winter would be coming...all year? How is it that @NYCDHS and @NYCMayor do not have more spaces available to keep people safe and warm? While I'm glad theres a bit more space overnight through the use of warming busses, (3/x)
would it be too much to ask to create options that aren't busses? Haven't been on a bus in a while but am nearly confident there's not a lot of social distancing happening on them. (4/x)
People are dying due to lack of shelter across the country - one preventable death is one too many. The City needs to open the subways, open more warming centers, and ensure unsheltered people are safe tonight and always. (5/x)
Oh, and also just a reminder that people rationally choose not go to @NYCDHS shelters and we should continue to be focused on creating more single hotel rooms, stabilization beds, & accessible, affordable, permanent housing to give people the options they want and deserve. (6/6)
