More than 4,000 migrants are now arriving in New York City every week, and the Adams administration says it needs to limit shelter stays even further to make room.
“It’s not if, it’s when people are going to be sleeping on our streets,” Mayor
said.
Migrant families with children will now only be allowed to stay in the shelter system for 60 days.
“New Yorkers will be denied shelter, they will end up on the streets,” Dave Giffen, Coalition for the Homeless said. “There’s really no question about that. But that seems to be the implicit if not the explicit intent. It does seem that their hope here is that the public spectacle of human suffering will serve as some kind of deterrent to more people coming to New York City.”
Adams however pushed back and dared his critics to come up with solutions themselves.
“I’m really calling on legal aid and others,” Adams. “Come up with some tangible ideas. Come up with some tangible ideas. Criticism is not an idea.”
But Kathryn Kliff from Legal Aid says they have outlined at least 13 proposals they have offered to the mayor’s team to help migrants move out of the shelter system.
“It’s frustrating that the mayor did not acknowledge that especially since since day one we have been trying to be a good partner and giving them ideas of what they could do.”
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