Some advocates criticized the plan, saying that the waterfront building could flood and is ill-suited to housing people
New York City is temporarily turning a cruise ship terminal into a shelter and services hub for asylum seekers, Mayor Eric Adams said Saturday, announcing the latest in a series of facilities the city has set up – and sometimes shut down – as it strains to handle an ongoing influx.
“Our city is at its breaking point,” said Adams, a Democrat who has repeatedly pleaded for state and federal assistance to address the flow of asylum seekers – some of them bused by out-of-state governors – to the nation’s most populous city. Adams travelled this week to El Paso, Texas, to visit the southern U.S. border and press the point. He declared a state of emergency over the issue this fall.
Some advocates for people who need shelter criticized the cruise ship terminal plan, saying that the waterfront building could flood and is ill-suited to housing people. Hotels are a better short-term option, and the longer-term plan should be to free up space in the city’s existing homeless shelters by making more robust efforts to get their occupants permanent housing, the Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless said.
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