The administration is set to announce it will suspend the 90-day rule, four people with knowledge of the change told POLITICO.
Asylum seekers arrive to the Roosevelt Hotel on Friday, May 19, 2023, in New York. | Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AP PhotoNEW YORK — The Adams administration is planning to ease the process of obtaining housing vouchers for those in shelter — a shift that is part of a broader conflict with the City Council about how best to manage a shelter system stretched to its limit by the steady influx of asylum-seekers.
The longstanding statute requires anyone living in a homeless shelter to stay there for three months before qualifying for a voucher that would assist with rent on the open market. In late May, the Council passed a bill ending the rule as part of a legislative package that would have made other major changes to the way vouchers are administered.
“We welcome this decision by the Adams Administration to suspend the arbitrary and punitive ‘90-day rule’, an overhaul we have long advocated for,” Judith Goldiner, head of the organization’s Civil Law Reform Unit, said in a statement.
“No announcement is confirmed until we make it, but since day one of this administration, Mayor Adams has worked to shelter New Yorkers experiencing homelessness and connect our city’s residents with more permanent housing,” mayoral spokesperson Fabien Levy said in a statement. “The City Council’s package of bills, however, does the opposite — making it harder for New Yorkers experiencing homelessness to exit shelter to permanent housing.
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