New York City, where the flow of immigrants has not stopped since 2022, is preparing to have the biggest hostel for newcomerswith capacity for 2,000 people, but the number could be even higher, according to the newspaper “The City”.
People will be in dormitories distributed in multi-story two-building complex in borough of Brooklyn, where a week ago a 600-capacity men’s shelter quietly opened. The second building that will be added to it can have up to 1,400 people.
The mayor’s office reported on Tuesday plans to house up to 2,000 people in those buildings, located near the Brooklyn Navy Yard industrial complex, but a source from the City Council assured “The City” that the number could exceed 2,000 people.
Mayor Eric Adams last year decreed a state of emergency due to the flow of immigrants that crowded the shelters of the city, which was forced to contract hotels both in the metropolitan area and in the north of the state to locate families with children, women and single men separately.
It has also denounced that the situation has created a financial crisis For this reason, he has asked the federal government for financial help by stating that the immigration issue is an unresolved national problem, but his claim, which has been supported by the governor Kathy Hochulhas not been heard.
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New York is sheltering some 100,000 people, 84,000 of whom are recently arrived immigrants., the majority Venezuelans and waiting for a work permit. The city has predicted that by the end of 2025 they will have spent 4.3 billion dollars to address the crisis caused by the flow of immigrants.
“We’re getting hundreds a week. The numbers are increasing and it’s still a drudgery for this city.”Adams said today during a press conference.
The mayor’s press spokesman, Fabián Levy, has told “The City” that the city’s plans are subject to change as needed.
He further indicated that the men’s shelter that is already operating in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn has a capacity for 600 adults and that the second would house 1,400 people but did not go into further details.
If the new shelter were to hold the 2,000 people the city plans to house there, only the Row Hotel in Midtown Manhattan would house more immigrantssince it has a thousand rooms where it houses families with children, recalls the newspaper.
“Having so many people in a collective center raises all kinds of problems related to security, health and personnel” to serve them, Dave Giffen, executive director of the NGO Coalition for the Homeless, told the newspaper. EFE
2023-07-12 00:25:00
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