30,000 more NYC migrants in families will soon face shelter evictions
By
Arya Sundaram
Published Aug 23, 2024
Modified Aug 23, 2024
The sheet of paper slipped under Carlos’ door on Wednesday night came as a shock.
“WARNING — FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN,” it said in Spanish, below the letterhead for the city Department of Homeless Services.
After living at a hotel shelter on the Upper West Side for eight months, the Venezuelan asylum seeker and his 6-year-old daughter may soon be required to leave in as few as 60 days, he learned. Carlos asked Gothamist not to share his last name for fear it would affect his immigration case.
The warning was for a new, sweeping expansion of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration’s cost-cutting policy of limiting shelter stays for migrants. Until now, nearly half of the migrants living city shelters — specifically, some 30,000 parents and children living in shelters run by the local Department of Homeless Services — have been spared the city’s eviction policy.
https://gothamist.com/news/30000-more-migrant-families-in-nyc-will-soon-face-shelter-evictions
