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. ...
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