New York City exploring using cruise ships as temporary housing.
At a Monday event, Mayor Adams was asked about the cruise ship plan.
"We're not going to leave any stone unturned. And once we finalize our plans, we're going to announce it," Adams said. "We're not it's not going to be any surprise is once we finalize how we're going to continue to live up to our legal and moral obligation, we're going to announce.", the Bloomberg administration considered using cruise ships to house homeless families. It sent officials to tour retired cruise ships in the waters off of the Bahamas.
The cruise ship plan comes as more than 11,000 migrants have arrived since May on buses sent from Texas. Theconsidering using summer camps to house migrants"Places that are outside of the city would make it hard for people to get to appointments that they need to get to, to get to court, to get to medical services, and would require a lot of transportation for city staff as well for us and the clients," Josh Goldfein of the Legal Aid Society said.
Adams says some of the migrants, asylum seekers from South America, have arrived with COVID-19, some were dehydrated, and he claims some were "tagged like you were tagging animals."
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