As New York City Mayor Eric Adams leaves for a tour of Central America aimed at dissuading migration, the city has also asked the New York Supreme Court for relief from the city's obligation to provide shelter.
Green stickers indicate the row and place number of cots inside the dormitory tent during a media tour of a shelter New York City is setting up to house up to 1,000 migrants in the Queens borough of New York, …leaves for a tour of Central America aimed at dissuading migration, the city has also asked the New York Supreme Court for relief from the city’s obligation to provide shelter., which has spurred an influx of migrants over the past year.
The latter figure would be taken from the average of adults coming in during the preceding two-year period, and would exclude data from times where a state of emergency regarding housing was in effect.has done more than any other city in the last 18 months to meet this national humanitarian crisis. The judgment’s onerous terms are demonstrably ill-suited to present circumstances and restrain the City at a time when flexibility to deal with the emergency is paramount,” officials wrote.
“If successful, the city would have the ability to declare an emergency, and effectively end the right to shelter for thousands of New Yorkers – including working poor individuals who rely on the shelter system and, alarmingly, individuals who rely on disability benefits,” said the Coalition for the Homeless nonprofit in a joint statement with the Legal Aid Society, a social justice law firm.
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