City Details Rollout Of Shelter-Limit Policy For Single Asylum Seekers
Roughly 1,500 single adult asylum seekers have received notices in recent weeks stating that their shelter stays will expire after 60 days, senior members of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration testified Thursday.
The update comes less than a month after Mayor Adams announced the 60-day policy, saying that the city had run out of room to house tens of thousands of recently-arrived migrants, and had to prioritize sheltering families with children. He drew backlash from advocates for the homeless, who warned people would end up sleeping on the streets.
Councilmember Diana Ayala, chair of the General Welfare Committee, emphasized that the case management and support migrants are receiving must be robust. “I don’t want to throw migrants into an unfamiliar pool of water and hope that they can swim,” she said. “I want to know that they can swim.”
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