ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams introduced Monday that he’s limiting shelter stays for migrant households with youngsters to 60 days, bidding to ease strain on a metropolis housing system overwhelmed by a big inflow of asylum seekers over the previous 12 months.
The Democrat’s workplace mentioned it should start sending 60-day notices to migrant households who dwell in shelters, although they might reapply for housing if they’re unable to discover a new place to dwell. The town additionally will present “intensified casework providers” to assist households safe housing, in response to a information launch.
It’s the mayor’s newest try to offer reduction to town’s shelter system and funds because it grapples with greater than 120,000 worldwide migrants who’ve come to New York, many with out housing or the authorized capacity to work. Greater than 60,000 migrants at the moment dwell in metropolis shelters, in response to his workplace.
Adams has estimated town will spend $12 billion over the subsequent three years to deal with the inflow, establishing large-scale emergency shelters, renting out inns and offering varied authorities providers for migrants.
The mayor final month restricted grownup migrants to simply 30 days in city-run services amid overcrowding. Adams can be searching for to droop a singular authorized settlement that requires New York Metropolis to offer emergency housing to homeless individuals. No different main U.S. metropolis has such a requirement.
“With over 64,100 asylum seekers nonetheless within the metropolis’s care, and hundreds extra migrants arriving each week, increasing this coverage to all asylum seekers in our care is the one means to assist migrants take the subsequent steps on their journeys,” Adams mentioned in a press release.
Just lately Adams took a four-day journey via Latin America, beginning in Mexico, the place he sought to discourage individuals from coming to New York by telling them town’s shelter system is at capability and that its assets are overwhelmed.
