(DNAINFO) Jeff Mays | December 21, 2015 — After 16 years of living on the street, Jesus Morales found a job as a porter helping a superintendent manage seven buildings in East Harlem and decided that it was time to move indoors.Instead of ducking outreach workers under the Park Avenue viaduct where he slept at night because he says he feels safer there than in the city shelter system, Morales, 42, began engaging the workers, explaining that he struggled with alcoholism.Morales says the workers told him they needed to see him in the same place on the street five times before they began the paperwork to get him a room, a process made more difficult by the police crackdown on homeless in the area over the summer.

Source: Homeless and Advocates Wary of De Blasio’s New Outreach Plan – East Harlem – DNAinfo.com New York