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New York City will begin providing 60 days notice for families with asylum-seeking children in shelters to find alternative housing, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday. Immigrants will be offered intensified social work services to help them explore other housing options. Each household that is notified will have multiple points of contact with caseworkers during their 60 days to discuss their options and plan their next steps. This announcement builds on the city’s work providing 30- and 60-day notices to adults and providing stepped-up social work services. Additionally, the city announced that Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn will open in the coming weeks to serve families with asylum-seeking children in a semi-congregate setting. Privacy dividers with locks will be installed to provide a place to stay for approximately 500 families with children.
New York City will begin issuing a 60-day notice for families with asylum-seeking children in shelters to find alternative housing, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday. Immigrants will be offered intensified social work services to help them explore other housing options.
Each household that is notified will have multiple points of contact with caseworkers during their 60 days to discuss their options and plan their next steps. This announcement builds on the city’s work giving 30- and 60-day notices to adults and providing stepped-up social work services.
Additionally, the city announced that Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn will open in the coming weeks to serve families with children seeking asylum in a semi-congregate setting. Privacy dividers with locks will be installed to provide a place to stay for approximately 500 families with children.
The policy comes because shelters are full due to the large number of immigrants who have arrived in New York City, the mayor said. More than 126,700 asylum seekers have entered the city since last spring and approximately 600 people arrived daily over the past week and more than 64,100 migrants are still in the city’s care, the mayor added.
“For more than a year, New York City has led the response to this national crisis, but significant additional resources, coordination and support are needed from all levels of government,” said Mayor Eric Adams. “With more than 64,100 asylum seekers still in the city’s care and thousands more migrants arriving every week, expanding this policy to all asylum seekers in our care is the only way to help migrants take the next steps in their journeys.” , he added.
Since the humanitarian crisis began, the city has opened more than 210 emergency shelters, including 17 large-scale humanitarian aid centers; created navigation centers to connect asylum seekers with critical resources; enrolled thousands of children in public schools through Project Open Arms; launched the Asylum Claim Help Center to help thousands of migrants with their asylum claims; and more.
2023-10-16 20:46:40
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