This morning Metro has an article about how the city’s plan to close its homeless intake center on East 28th Street in Manhattan and move it to Crown Heights is being opposed by some homeless advocates and politicians. (News of the relocation effort broke last week.) On the Manhattan end, advocates believe that closing the Kips Bay facility, which has 850 beds in addition to being an intake center, will mean that more homeless people are on the street. On the Brooklyn end, City Councilmember Letitia James calls the proposal “misguided” since Crown Heights is oversaturated with social services. The city wants the new intake center to be in the armory at Bedford and Atlantic avenues, which already has a men’s shelter. Dept. of Homeless Services Commissioner Rob Hess defends the move by saying that People living on the street are not going to a centralized intake center. The topic’s been debated in comments here before, so we decided to open it up to a poll:

Brooklyn Crying Foul on Homeless Strategy [Metro]
Crown Heights Doesn’t Want UES Homeless Center [Brownstoner]
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