City to End 28-Day Hotel Stays for Immigrant Families with Children
After two years, the city is ending an initiative that provides short-term hotel room stays to migrants and asylum-seekers in need of shelter—the latest move from City Hall to scale back its response efforts for new immigrant arrivals, citing declining numbers.
The Hotel Vouchering Program has provided 28-day hotel stays for migrant families with children since it was quietly launched in July 2023. At the time, the number of immigrant arrivals in the homeless shelter system was on the rise, and the vouchers were used to house them if no other options were available, officials said previously. After 28 days, families could seek another placement, typically for 60-day stays in other emergency shelters.
