NYC Mayor Adams Temporarily Eases Housing Requirements to Accommodate Migrants, No Guarantee of Shelter

MARY CHASTAIN MAY 11, 2023 3:00 PM

Maybe declaring a city a sanctuary city isn’t such a good idea.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed an executive order that temporarily loosens the housing requirements for five days as the migrant crisis grows.

At first, it looks good because it means more shelter access. But if you read the suspended codes, you realize you aren’t guaranteed shelter or one with a bathroom, kitchen, or bed.

The executive order suspended three sections of the Administrative Code:

• § 21-124 Prohibiting the use of tier I shelters: “A tier I facility is a facility subject to the provisions of this Part which provides shelter and services to 10 or more homeless families including, at a minimum, a sleeping area, access to three nutritional meals a day, supervision, a preliminary needs determination, and health services in accordance with this Part.”
• § 21-313: “The department shall maintain a facility open for intake twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week to accept and process applications for shelter from families with children. Any family with children seeking shelter who is still in the process of applying as of ten o’clock in the evening on the day such family sought shelter shall be provided temporary shelter placement for that night. The following morning the family shall return to the intake facility to complete the application process. The department shall arrange transportation for the families to and from the temporary shelter placement.”
• § 26-521 Unlawful eviction “to the extent such provision gives rights to individuals in need of shelter or housing because of the circumstances that led to the state of emergency and who have been occupants of dwelling units for 30 or more days, or creates a landlord-tenant relationship between any individual assisting with the response to the state of emergency or any individual in need of shelter or housing because of the circumstances that led to the state of emergency, and any individual or entity, including but not limited to any hotel owner, hospital, not-for-profit housing provider or any other person or entity who provides temporary housing for a period of thirty days or more solely for purposes of assisting in the response to the state of emergency.”

City Hall spokesperson Fabian Levy said: “This is not a decision taken lightly and we will make every effort to get asylum seekers into shelter as quickly as possible as we have done since day one.”

Title 42 ends today, which means the border will likely see a surge in border crossings. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sent migrants to sanctuary cities since the small border towns are busting at the seams.

NYC has received over 61.000 migrants. Adams wants to send migrants to neighboring suburbs but they’re fighting the bus plan:

Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus told The Post that City Hall informed him of the timeline Tuesday — fewer than 24 hours after Neuhaus issued an emergency declaration to halt the Big Apple’s plan to dump asylum-seekers at a local motel.During another private afternoon call between the Adams administration and officials from Rockland County — which issued a similar declaration over the weekend — city officials said 30 migrants would be bused to Rockland and another 30 migrants to Orange on Wednesday, said a source with knowledge of the conversation.“We are doing everything we can to squeeze every bit of space out of New York City,” an Adams aide assured the Rockland officials, according to the source.GOP Rockland County Executive Ed Day had warned over the weekend that he already had cops deployed to thwart any incoming migrants sent from the Big Apple — adding, “Mr. Adams, you can try to run us over, [and] I will reach up and grab you by the throat for the people of Rockland County.”

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