The Adams administration on Tuesday filed legal motions seeking to modify the city's legal right-to-shelter, aiming to exempt the city from the obligation when it 'lacks the resources and capacity' to provide shelter to everyone in need of it.
amNY Sports email newsletterThe Adams administration on Tuesday filed legal motions seeking to modify the city’s legal right-to-shelter, aiming to exempt the city from the obligation when it “lacks the resources and capacity” to provide shelter to everyone in need of it.Callahan v. Carey
consent decree to absolve the city of its legal obligation provide shelter to any single adult seeking it when the city “lacks the resources and capacity to establish and maintain sufficient shelter sites, staffing, and security to provide safe and appropriate shelter.” The move, which would upend decades of city law, comes as the administration struggles to handle an influx of asylum seekers from Latin America that has strained the city’s shelter system and burned a massive hole in its budget. About 70,000 migrants have arrived in New York since last year; city and state leaders are begging for relief from the federal government to little avail, while Adams has made controversial moves to house them like busing them upstate or placing them in high school gyms.
New York’s right-to-shelter is the only one of its kind among major American cities. It has been a stalwart of city law for four decades, but has never been codified by lawmakers.suspending part of the right to shelter that set deadlines for providing beds to unhoused people and to keep families housed together in units with bathrooms and kitchens.” that would formally codify the right to shelter in city law and explicitly establish a right to sleep outside.
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