Adams has repeatedly said the city’s shelter system, which was already strained from a deepening affordable housing shortage, can’t handle more people.
Adams is now hoping a judge will determine that New York City’s can no longer sustain a right that exists nowhere else in the country, even as he touts the five boroughs’ superiority.The mayor’s push comes as the city’s shelter population has soared past previous highs in recent months, with many New Yorkers unable to afford record-high rents and tens of thousands of newly arrived migrants entering the five boroughs in need of a place to stay.
Already policymakers, shelter providers, homeless rights advocates and people who have experienced homelessness are lining up to defend the country’s only rules guaranteeing a bed for anyone in need. While the shelter system has faced relentless scrutiny over unsafe conditions, minimal supports and prolonged stays, the city’s rule at the very least guarantees a place to stay, said Milton Perez, an organizer with the group VOCAL-NY who experienced homelessness and lived in shelters
After two years of negotiations, then-Mayor Ed Koch agreed to the right-to-shelter premise and entered into a consent decree that allowed the Coalition for the Homeless to oversee the city’s shelter system and implementation of the rule. Callahan, however, died before the city agreed to the consent decree.
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