Newark sues to stop NYC from relocating homeless to New Jersey

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Newark sues to stop NYC from relocating homeless to New Jersey
By Emily Saul
December 2, 2019 | 7:56pm

Officials in Newark are suing New York City and Mayor Bill de Blasio in an attempt to shut down a program that relocates homeless families from the Big Apple to New Jersey.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in New Jersey federal court, accuses the City of shipping its most vulnerable residents across the Hudson River — and then dumping them in squalid and inhumane conditions.  ... NY Post

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December 3, 2019 / 9:47 AM / Updated 34 minutes ago
New Jersey mayor sues New York City over moving homeless with 'offer they can't refuse'

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s administration has sued New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, accusing the fellow Democrat of dumping his city’s population of homeless people on New Jersey’s biggest city.

The lawsuit naming the city of New York, its mayor and his homelessness czar, Steven Banks, accuses the de Blasio administration’s Special One-Time Assistance, or SOTA, program of using strong-arm tactics to send people across the Hudson River to find a place to live.

“This case concerns an unlawful program of ‘coerced’ migration,” Newark lawyers say in court documents filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey on Monday.  ...  Rest of story at Reuters

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Maybe New Jersey needs to build a wall.