National Guard deployed to NYC homeless shelters to assist migrant surge
By Craig McCarthy and Patrick Reilly
October 27, 2022 12:13am Updated
The National Guard is deploying members to NYC's homeless shelters to assist the overcrowded facilties.
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National Guard members are being deployed to New York City’s homeless shelters to help assist the overwhelmed facilities that are also housing migrants.
The reservists will help with routine operations at the shelters, including food distribution, capacity management and supplementing the stretched-thin staff, a city Department of Social Services official told The Post.
Their responsibilities “do not include staffing support for security, social services or case management services,” the spokesperson said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how many troops have been deployed or how many shelters they will support.
Sources told The Post that National Guard members will be trained in some capacity on homelessness services.
The city shelter deployment came after Gov. Kathy Hochul mobilized 100 National Guard troops for deployment earlier this month to “provide logistical and operational support” to the city’s controversial migrant tent city on Randall’s Island.
The Randall’s Island relief center has a capacity for roughly 500 migrants but has been largely vacant even while nearly 16,000 others have packed the city’s overloaded shelter system.
https://nypost.com/2022/10/27/national-guard-deployed-to-nyc-homeless-shelters-to-assist-migrant-crisis/
