Growing Number of Asylum Seekers Sleep on NYC Sidewalks as City Grapples with Housing Crisis

Growing Number of Asylum Seekers Sleep on NYC Sidewalks as City Grapples with Housing Crisis

what to know A large number of asylum seekers have been outside the city’s arrival intake center sleeping on the sidewalk as they wait to be assigned a shelter to sleep in a bed, if one is available. With an average of 300 to 500 people arriving per day, the city is taking clampdown new … Read more

First Anniversary of Border-Crossing Immigrants Bused to New York City: Addressing the Challenges and Solutions

First Anniversary of Border-Crossing Immigrants Bused to New York City: Addressing the Challenges and Solutions

NEW YORK – This August 5 marks one year to the day Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that his state would begin busing border-crossing immigrants directly into New York City. . On the occasion of the first year of the arrival of buses from the southern border with migrants, leaders of different organizations, which supported … Read more

New York City to Give Long-Term Adult Immigrant Asylum Seekers 60 Days to Find Alternative Housing

New York City to Give Long-Term Adult Immigrant Asylum Seekers 60 Days to Find Alternative Housing

NEW YORK — New York City announced Wednesday that it will give long-term adult immigrant asylum seekers in shelters 60 days to find alternative housing, Mayor Eric Adams said. In this way, space could be created for families with children who continue to arrive non-stop since last year, added the mayor. Adams made the announcement … Read more

New York City Prepares to Open Largest Shelter for New Arrivals

New York City Prepares to Open Largest Shelter for New Arrivals

what to know People will be in dormitories spread over several floors of two buildings at a compound in Brooklyn Borough, where a 600-capacity men’s shelter quietly opened a week ago. New York is sheltering some 100,000 people, of which 84,000 are recently arrived immigrants, the majority Venezuelans and waiting for a work permit. “We’re … Read more

New York Mayor Signs Executive Order to Repeal Shelter Requirement for Housing Vouchers

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order Friday to repeal “immediately” the rule that a homeless person had to spend 90 days in a shelter to qualify for a voucher that delivered by the city for the rental of a dwelling. According to the mayor, removing this rule will help … Read more

NYC Mayor Eric Adams considers using Gracie Mansion to house asylum seekers

NEW YORK — The immigration crisis could soon be literally hitting New York City Mayor Eric Adams, as he appears to be entertaining the idea of ​​using Gracie Mansion to house asylum seekers as they continue to pour into the city. . Given the dire situation that Adams has repeatedly said has caused an influx … Read more

New York City Turns to Schools and Hotels to House Influx of Asylum Seekers

NEW YORK — New York City, amid more influx of asylum seekers, will use a Brooklyn school gym as an emergency management center to briefly house immigrants, it said. in a row Councilman Justin Brannan on Monday morning. This is the gymnasium at Coney Island School 188. “The plan is to move people on and … Read more

“Historic Roosevelt Hotel in NYC to reopen as emergency shelter for asylum seekers”

NEW YORK — The historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan closed three years ago, but will soon be bustling with life again as it reopens to accommodate an anticipated influx of asylum seekers just as other New York City hotels are converting in emergency shelters. Mayor Eric Adams announced Saturday that the city will use … Read more