The New York City mayor's office says the city's daily intake of migrants has exceeded 500 individuals, and it anticipates a substantial increase.
New York City is tightening its rules around housing homeless as more migrants are expected to flood the country asTitle 42 is lifted.
"The City now faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that requires it to take extraordinary measures to meet the immediate needs of the asylum seekers while continuing to serve the tens of thousands of people who are currently using the DHS Shelter System," said Adams. "With over 130 emergency sites and eight humanitarian relief centers already opened, we have reached our limit, and this last week we had to resort to temporarily housing recent arrivals in gyms. In an effort to mitigate those risks and find room within our shelter system, the city has temporarily suspended the policy surrounding timing for placements in shelters.
Earlier this week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issued an executive order allowing the state to use $1 billion to help New York City support asylum seekers.
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