


We need your bed — for someone else!
That’s the shocking message NYC officials gave while testifying before the City Council on Thursday as to why they’re kicking out single adult migrants staying in city-run shelters after 60 days.
So far, the city has issued approximately 1,500 eviction notices to single adult migrants with the clock starting on July 24 at emergency shelters run by the city’s Health and Hospitals.
If they can’t find alternative housing, they’re allowed to reapply.
“We should not underestimate the abilities, the resourcefulness, the agency of the people in our care,” Office of Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol said.
“And a lot of them, I think, given 60 days, will find another place. They will be able to get out on their own feet.”
But, Iscol warned the new revolving door for the shelter system could be quickly overwhelmed if the flow of migrants from the southern border does not slow down.
More than 103,000 people — roughly half of the migrants — are either living in city-run or city-funded shelters or other emergency facilities set up to provide shelter.

Desperate for space, officials are set to open tent cities in the parking lot of the sprawling Creedmore psychiatric facility in Queens and on soccer fields on Randall’s Island.
Creedmore will open next week, with Randall’s Island set to open the week after, said Ted Long, a top official at the city’s public hospital system, which will oversee the sites.
Progressives and homeless activists have slammed the administration for pursuing the policy amidst the Big Apple’s larger housing crisis, where the number of available apartments is so scarce even those who can afford market-rate rents are spending months searching for units.

“The administration has not provided any further concrete plan for housing people who reached the 60-day limit,” said Public Advocate Jumaane Williams.
“While the administration claims the goal is not to force people into the street, we already see it happening,” he added.
“Migrants are sleeping on sidewalks and parks and the bridges and highways.”

More than 54,800 asylum seekers are currently staying at one of the city’s 188 emergency shelter sites set up to cater to the migrant influx.
“We cannot continue to absorb tens of thousands of newcomers,” Adams said last month, adding the new limit was one of the “difficult choices” the city has been forced to make in order to cater to the relentless influx.