Mayor Eric Adams is facing more fallout for his decision to limit shelter stays for migrant families to 60 days, with advocates saying the choice will force both migrants and homeless New Yorkers to sleep on the street.
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.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.""I'm really calling on legal aid and others," Adams.
If these migrant families can not find alternative housing in 60 days – they will still have to move out and then return to the Roosevelt hotel, which is currently serving as a migrant intake center, to reapply for a shelter bed.NYC officials have been trying to roll back the city's "right to shelter" rule following the arrival of over 120,000 migrants since last year.
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