65% of migrants handed notices of 60-day shelter limit say they want to leave system: NYC officials
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65% of migrants handed notices of 60-day shelter limit say they want to leave system: NYC officials
By Ethan Stark-Miller
Posted on August 10, 2023
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Migrants waiting online outside the Roosevelt Hotel.
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Officials with Mayor Eric Adams administration on Thursday said a new 60-day limit on shelter stays for adult migrants is working as intended, with 65% of those in many emergency facilities handed notices about the policy indicating they will make a plan to leave the system.
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RELATED NEWS: - 65% of migrants handed notices of 60-day shelter limit say they want to leave system: NYC officials | amNewYork
Officials with Mayor Eric Adams administration on Thursday said a new 60-day limit on shelter stays for adult migrants is working as intended, with 65% of those in many emergency facilities handed notices about the policy indicating they will make a plan to leave the system.
65% of migrants handed notices of 60-day shelter limit say they want to leave system: NYC officials | amNewYork
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The remarks came during a City Council hearing examining the relatively new policy, which Adams rolled out last month as a means of providing more shelter space to families with children as the city has become completely overwhelmed by asylum seeking migrants.
During the hearing, city Health + Hospitals Senior Vice President Dr. Ted Long said that of the migrants staying in facilities operated by the public hospital system who have been handed 60-day notices, 65% have said they want to make an “exit plan.”
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“When we have our case managers having direct conversations with people we ask, ‘are you ready to make an exit plan?’ That will be something that will be executed within that 60-day period of time?” Long said. “So [that] number of people are telling our case managers, ‘Yes, I’m ready to make an exit plan. We’re going to write it out.’”
About 50 migrants, Long said, left the system within a day of having those conversations because the city was able to quickly provide what they asked for.
However, Long said, many others tell caseworkers that in order to vacate city shelters they need some support from the city. That support could be IDNYC cards — city-issued identification cards, English language lessons or help connecting with family, whether that be in the city or another municipality.
“Others, that constitute the rest of the 65%, need something that we haven’t been able to meet yet,” Long said. “Like IDNYC. Or like figuring out how a reconnection would work through the reticketing somewhere else in the country if they haven’t talked to family members in some time, things like that.”
Call me cynical, but I can’t imagine so many people having legit plans.
Forgot to preview post. Not enough sleep!