Migrant families in DHS shelters will soon be evicted after 60 days. That’s sparked fears about more children living on the street.
“WARNING — FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN,” it said in Spanish, below the letterhead for the city Department of Homeless Services.
The warning was for a new, sweeping expansion of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration’s cost-cutting policy of limiting shelter stays for migrants, set to be rolled out over the next several months. Until now, nearly half of the migrants living city shelters — specifically, 30,000-some parents and children living in shelters run by the local Department of Homeless Services — have been spared the city’s eviction policy.
“It’s a government order. We have to follow it,” Carlos said. “But we don’t have anywhere else to stay.” For the last several months, New York City’s migrant shelter census has hovered around 65,000. That’s despite aWarning letters provided to migrant families in DHS shelters earlier this week said the 60-day eviction notices “will be given out on a rolling basis beginning later this summer.” Officials aim to initially apply the policy to households who have been in their care for the longest time, according to DHS spokesperson Neha Sharma.
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