Two new relief and humanitarian response centers have been opened by the city this week, they are in Queens and Brooklyn. In the first county, the Mayor’s Office aims to serve more than 330 families with children from a former hotel.
Meanwhile, in Brooklyn, they hope to serve about 1,400 men alone in another building.
“They are not hotel shelters, men don’t get hotels, we get shelters for single men,” said Yorby Torrealba, an asylum seeker.
At least 52,000 men, women and children who have arrived in the last year are under the care of the city, according to official statistics.
The Brooklyn site is one of the arrival centers that will feature a new humanitarian relief area for single men.
Several of the migrants who are already taking refuge here said that the housing conditions are not adequate. They must shower outside the enclosure and they all sleep in a large room. They feel that the center would not be able to receive more people. We spoke to two of them and they did not want to be identified:
“He is not fit to live, not this. 150 people for two bathrooms, it can’t be possible, well for my part it can’t be possible”, said one of the interviewees.
“They brought us here and the security people have had a lot of conflict, they want to humiliate us. That he is saying bad words to us and that, ”said another interviewee.
For its part, the New York Immigrant Coalition believes that this is not the solution to continue housing asylum seekers.
“He’s being ineffective, and he’s being costly in that he’s using applicants as scapegoats, to explain the mismanagement of the shelter system in New York City. What’s needed now, and what we’ve been asking for since last year, are permanent solutions,” said Marlene Galaz, NYIC director of public policy. “This so-called crisis, it’s not a crisis, it’s something we knew was coming.” .
We tried to contact NYC Health + Hospitals, the department that runs relief and humanitarian response centers, but they have not responded.
The two new centers will be offering health services, legal guidance, help with children’s school enrollment, and even support so that migrants can move to other destinations if they wish.
2023-07-12 13:24:00
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