Gov. Kathy Hochul is siding with New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a push to suspend the city’s right-to-shelter law amid an ongoing surge of asylum-seekers.
In a new filing in the state Supreme Court, lawyers for the Hochul administration said the state supports the city’s request to modify a decades-old consent decree requiring New York City to provide shelter to anyone homeless, regardless of their immigration status.
Hochul’s lawyers wrote in the letter to the court that the parties who signed the agreement more than 40 years ago never contemplated “the influx of so many migrants in such a short period of time.”
“Despite unprecedented resources deployed by the city and the state to assist the newly arrived migrants, the current situation is not sustainable,” they wrote.Hochul’s court filing in the legal fight is the first time her administration has supported a rollback of the shelter mandate, which Adams requested […]
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