The city comptroller demanded that the mayor release more detailed data on migrants while a state lawmaker said he was recently prohibited from touring a migrant facility in his district.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.City Comptroller Brad Lander is demanding that Mayor Eric Adams release more detailed data on the migrant population, nearly a month after City Hall abruptly stopped providing breakdowns of where the migrants were staying across different types of shelters.
Lander described the city’s current reporting practice of providing rounded estimates of migrants without more details around where they were staying as “wholly insufficient.” “I just wanted to see what is happening in my district,” he said. “Whether they are there for one month, one week or one year, we just want to be helpful to people. We want to do problem solving.”The mayor has argued that the escalating number of migrants has strained the city’s ability to fulfill its right-to-shelter mandate, which requires that a bed be given to anyone who requests one.
“In order to make the most compelling case for federal reimbursement, we need a clear accounting of all costs,” he wrote. She did not provide an explanation for why the reporting had changed. She said people at emergency shelter sites were being counted but they were moving out “pretty quickly.”
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