Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday repeated he doesn’t believe the city’s right-to-shelter mandate applies to nearly 119,000 recently arrived migrants, while his
The mayor made the remarks in an interview with conservative WABC77 radio host Sid Rosenberg on Sept. 28, when Rosenberg played an audio clip of U.S. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis asking why the mayor would appeal a ruling that seemingly gives him what he wants.
Adams, in the Thursday interview, said that while he agrees the right-to-shelter shouldn’t apply to the migrant influx, there are other parts of Ozzi’s ruling he opposes. Those include Ozzi’s assessment that the city is not in an emergency and that his administration’s sheltering of a seemingly never-ending stream of migrants is responsible for the current crisis.
“I don’t believe the right to shelter applies to a migrant crisis,” the mayor said. “Our team is looking at exactly what we are going to do with the ruling …He stated that we created this emergency by allowing people to come here. Anyone knows that I cannot deny people from coming here. So, we need to peel apart the entire ruling, the comments that he made, and make sure we don’t allow them to stand.
Adams added there are parts of the ruling they may agree with, and it is up to the city’s Corporation Counsel Sylvia Hinds-Radix to figure that out. In his ruling, Ozzi said neither the 1981 consent decree that established the right-to-shelter for homeless New Yorkers nor the state constitution “require the City or State of New York to provide shelter to the tens of thousands of migrant asylum seekers who have arrived in the last 18He also referred to the consent decree as a “relic of the past” that didn’t envision the current migrant tide when it was issued over 40 years ago.
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