Judge will hear NYC right to shelter case as mayor seeks limits for city in crisis, MelissaRusso4NY reports
In an order dated May 25 and obtained by News 4, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Deborah Kaplan responded to the city's request two days earlier that a judge be assigned to hear motions.The Adams administration has not laid out its legal arguments yet but says they want the mandate requiring housing for all childless adults suspended when the Department of Homeless Services is determined to be out of resources and unable to provide safe and appropriate shelter.
Adams is seeking to change a judgment agreed to by the city four decades ago. The Democrat argues it's antiquated, was never intended to apply to tens of thousands of incoming asylum seekers, and ties the city's hands. It's not yet clear when Edwards will hear motions from city attorneys and the Legal Aid Society, which represents homeless New Yorkers. Legal Aid has pledged to"vigorously fight" any effort to disband the city's right-to-shelter law.The right to shelter has been in place for more than four decades in New York, after a court in 1981 required the city to provide temporary housing for every homeless person who asks for it. Other big U.S. cities don’t have such a rule.
But with the arrival of 70,000 asylum seekers since last spring, many of whom crossed into the U.S. from Mexico, the city has been challenged to
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