Under New York’s “right to shelter” policy, the city must provide shelter to anyone who seeks it on any given night. bridgetgillard spoke with Robert Hayes, the lawyer behind the policy, about his original vision, its necessity, and its imperfections
On September 12, 60 unhoused men arrived at an intake center on East 30th Street expecting a place to stay, only to learn there were no beds available in any of New York City’s shelters. In addition to those 60 men, according to the Legal Aid Society, others who had been processed and assigned a bed later returned to the intake center after being told the shelters were full. City officials, if they knew, did not immediately say where any of these men went or may have spent the night.
We caught up with Hayes about his original vision for the right to shelter, its necessity and imperfections, and how renewed attention on it might advance the right to housing.What were you doing in 1979 before you filed theI was 25 years old and working at Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the most white-shoe law firms on Wall Street. The culture in the city then was that homelessness, to the extent it was acknowledged, was a choice that people were making to live on the streets.
Here we are in a Depression, and this is to be clear, no matter how hard times get in the future, we will always retain this fundamental relationship between the state and its peopleRight, it is a series of court orders— which are tougher than laws really, because you’re in contempt of court if you disobey as opposed to getting sued for violating a statute. No serious elected official in New York can really challenge the essence of this right to shelter.
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