New York City is challenging a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to anyone who asks for it.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams listens as Gov. Kathy Hochul delivers her State of the State address at the state Capitol on Jan. 10 in Albany, N.Y.New York City is challenging a unique legal agreement that requires it to provide emergency housing to anyone who asks for it, as the city’s shelter system strains under a large
A neighbor of a New York migrant shelter sets up a loudspeaker on his lawn that repeatedly blares, ‘Immigrants are not safe here’ in six languages.The shelter requirement has been in place for more than four decades in New York City, following a legal agreement struck in 1981 that required the city to provide temporary housing for every homeless person. No other big city in America has such a requirement.
Adams had heralded the shelter requirement at the start of the crisis as a display of the city’s empathy toward asylum seekers. In the months since, his rhetoric has hardened as the city has spent more than a billion dollars to rent space in hotels, erect large emergency shelters and provide government services for migrants who arrive without housing or jobs.The first day of school is providing challenges for New York and other major U.S.
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