Left-wing Democrats are pushing back against Mayor Eric Adams’ limitation on how long migrants can stay at the Big Apple’s homeless shelters.
With the city’s shelters overwhelmed by the impoverished foreigners, Adams limited stays to 60 days in July and further cut the amount of time to 30 days for single adults in September as Gotham struggles to deal with a crisis that Hizzoner has said would “destroy” the city with the tens of thousands of illegal aliens straining resources and forcing cuts in essential services that residents depend on.
Democratic socialist Councilwoman Shahana Hanif of Brooklyn is set to reintroduce her bill that prohibits NYC agencies from setting time limits on how long illegals can stay in shelters, legislation that would amend the city’s administrative code which critics fear will encourage migrants to never leave the city’s care.
“This bill would prohibit any city agency from imposing limits on the length of time an individual or family may remain in a shelter or emergency congregate housing, provided such individual or family is eligible for temporary housing assistance under State law, as applicable,” reads the bill which is being co-sponsored by 10 other far left council members.
The legislation was first introduced in October 2023 but failed to advance. Hanif plans to re-introduce the bill at a City Council meeting on February 28 followed by a public hearing at City Hall on March 1, one that will surely be packed by activists taking their beef with Adams directly to his doorstep.
BIG NEWS! We have a hearing scheduled on 3/1! https://t.co/Uxld8PbFSR
— Council Member Shahana Hanif (@CMShahanaHanif) February 14, 2024
“Shelter evictions are a human-rights abuse that both the city and state Legislatures need to be taking on, given our shared oversight of shelter functions,” Hanif told the New York Post, saying that she is working with a pair of Democrat lawmakers who last week introduced similar legislation at the state level in Albany.
“Our offices will be collaborating closely as we work to advance our bills in City Hall and the Capitol,” she told the outlet of her partnering with Manhattan Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz of Queens.
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“The 30- and 60-day check-ins exist for a reason,” Councilwoman Joann Ariola, a Queens Republican said, according to the New York Post. “They provide opportunities for city agencies to make contact with migrants in the shelter system, and ensure that they’re on a path towards living on their own.”
“Removing these crucial check-ins will only create a culture of dependency, in which migrants remain reliant on the government and never leave the city’s care,” added the councilwoman.
“This whole thing is really little more than a PR stunt by my colleagues on the radical left. They are trying to legislate the management of city agencies. This is something that can’t be legislated, and they know that,” Ariola said.
“This issue will destroy New York City. We’re getting 10,000 migrants a month. … people all over the globe have made their minds up that they’re going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City,” Mayor Adams said in a speech last September, he would later go on to make deep budget cuts to accommodate the new arrivals.
“More than 177,000 migrants have come through New York City since spring 2022, including at least 66,000 currently in the city’s care,” the New York Post reported. “City shelters as of Thursday had 88,242 residents”
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