The city of New York announced this Wednesday that it will give adult immigrants who have been in shelters for a long time a period of 60 days to find alternative housing in order to have space for families with children who have continued to arrive non-stop since last year. past, Mayor Eric Adams reported.
Adams made the announcement at a press conference in which he reiterated that the city has no more space and that since the migratory flow began, 90,000 people have already arrived, of which 54,000 are under city care.
Those 54,000 immigrants are about half of the 105,800 people the city hosts in its shelters.
“We are going to give asylum seekers (as immigrants are often called) a sixty-day notice to prepare to seek alternative accommodation,” said the mayor, adding: “Our social services will help them explore other options and get in touch with their networks of friends and family.
If they do not find a place to live in those sixty days, they will have to start the process of requesting a new place in another shelter.
New York’s real estate market, one of the most expensive in the country, doesn’t make things easy for immigrants, especially if they don’t have a job.
“We have no more space in the city. It cannot continue, it is not sustainable and we are not going to pretend otherwise,” Adams insisted.
The mayor also announced a campaign to combat “misinformation at the border,” in the sense that they want to dissuade those who plan to come to New York expecting an open-door policy.
In the past year of the immigration crisis, the city has been forced to rent hotels and find other accommodation for immigrants, single adults and families with children, to whom it also provides food and guarantees a place for the children in the public school system. .
Last week more than 2,800 immigrants entered the shelters provided by the city.
New York is the only city in the country that is legally required to provide shelter to anyone by a law passed in the 1980s, but its capacities have been overwhelmed in the last twelve months.
2023-07-19 19:26:00
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