“I don't believe the right to shelter applies to a migrant crisis,” Adams said.
“I don’t believe the right to shelter applies to a migrant crisis,” Adams said.
He was responding to a decision from a Staten Island judge earlier this week that referred to the shelter guarantee as “an anachronistic relic from the past” that was “intended to address a problem as different from today’s dilemma as night and day.” Adams’ comments come as the city moves to seek relief from the right-to-shelter mandate in court and further restricts how long migrants can stay in shelters.
Others say the migrant-specific restrictions are a slippery slope toward weakening hard-fought shelter requirements that keep homeless New Yorkers off the streets. Discouraging new arrivals has become an increasingly explicit goal of migrant policies enacted by the Adams administration. A flier shown by Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom shows the ways New York City is trying to discourage new migrant arrivals during a briefing at City Hall on Sept. 27, 2023. | Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office
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