The city of New York asked a court Tuesday: temporarily suspend rule requiring all homeless people to provide shelter, a rule that draws 70,000 immigrants to the city in ten months and strains the city’s resources. The Municipal Law Department sent a letter to the Manhattan Supreme Court requesting that the law in effect since 1984 (Callahan and Carey) be amended without specifying how long the suspension would last, but Mayor Eric Adams stated in a statement: “We are not in any way seeking to abolish the right to shelter”.
An influx of immigrants has filled public shelters, and the city is paying thousands of dollars a day to the nearly 150 hotels it has to rent to stay in the city and in some counties in the north of the state where it faces resistance. both families with children and single adults. According to the mayor 1 billion dollars spent in providing a variety of services apart from housing, such as meals, school places and minimal healthcare for minors who come with their families.
Adams, who has repeatedly asked the federal government to speed up work permits for the thousands of immigrants to whom he has subsidized and sheltered, with this judicial protection measure the Joe Biden government, or at least, other cities. “Being honest about the fact that the city can’t take care of itself because we can’t care for an unlimited number of people and we’re already overloaded is in the interests of everyone, including those who want to come to the United States. Anyone who crosses our border should own up,” he said. causes, and we need our partners in the (federal) government to know the truth and do their part.”
He said today’s action will allow them to “get clarity from the court and protect the right to housing for the tens of thousands of people under our care, both formerly homeless and asylum seekers.” “We now have more refugees under our care than homeless New Yorkers,” he said.
Most people who come to New York do this. Trips organized by Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of TexasHe rented buses to hundreds of immigrants across the Mexican border on the grounds that “progressive cities” (Democratic mayors of New York, Washington, and Chicago) would welcome immigrants crossing the border. However, of these three cities, New York is the only one that is required by law to provide mandatory housing to everyone.
The city’s decision to apply to the judiciary to immediately end this requirement has described the reaction of the immigrant service organization Making the Road New York as “beyond disappointment”. “This is not just a way to address homelessness and meet the needs of asylum seekers, it’s a surefire way to get more people to sleep on the streets,” said José López, the organisation’s co-executive director.