City Comptroller Brad Lander on Thursday excoriated Mayor Eric Adams’ 60-day shelter stay limit for migrants in a new report finding the policy has been
City Comptroller Brad Lander released a report finding Mayor Eric Adams’ 60-day shelter limit for migrant families was implemented in a ‘haphazard’ fashion. Thursday, May 9, 2024.for migrants in a new report finding the policy has been implemented in a “haphazard and arbitrary” fashion, without proper guidelines or staffing.
City Council Member Alexa Aviles , who chairs the Committee on Immigration, echoed that the 60-day rule is designed to push migrants out of shelter, rather than help them. Mamelak added that nearly half of the families given the notices have left the shelter system as well as over 50% of all migrants who have been in the city’s care, “without a single migrant family with children being forced to sleep on the street.”
Furthermore, the report uncovered that families with elementary school-aged children who reapply for shelter are not placed in city Department of Homeless Services facilities — where most migrant families have been housed thus far.The report found the lack of written policies was evident in areas such as exemptions for pregnant migrants.
Lander’s study also uncovered a lack of guidance around the transfer of migrant families’ belongings and mail when they are booted from shelters. “Our investigators found that there’s very little case management of any sort,” Lander said. “What there essentially are, are repeated screenings to insist that you must have somewhere else to go over and over and over again.”
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