Adams Updates New Yorkers on City’s Ongoing Migrant Response
NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today announced two updates to city policy that will save taxpayers millions of dollars and allow the city to more effectively help migrants take their next steps towards self-sufficiency. First, following their second 60-day notice, families with children in kindergarten through sixth grade can stay in the same shelter they were previously assigned to if they still need more time in the system, making it easier for those children to continue attending their same schools and saving the city hundreds of thousands spent on busing those students to those schools. The city will also establish a centralized mail center in the coming weeks to further ensure that migrants have access to critical legal information — like updates on their asylum, temporary protected status (TPS), or work authorization applications — as well as other correspondence, regardless of their location in the city, including if they leave the system.
Additionally, Mayor Adams today released new data and operational updates on the city’s ongoing response to the over 223,000 migrants and asylum seekers who have arrived in New York City and sought city services since the spring of 2022. NYC Health + Hospitals’ team of case managers have conducted more than 700,000 exit planning meetings with asylum seekers in the city’s Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers, helping them identify needs and set goals to leave the city shelter system, and connecting them to the appropriate legal, medical, and social services. Thanks to those meetings, and the city’s nation-leading Asylum Application Help Center — which has submitted more than 84,000 total applications for work authorization, asylum, and TPS — 70 percent of eligible adults have either completed applications or been approved for work authorization. As a result of the above efforts, since intensive case management services began in October 2023, 42 percent more families with children in humanitarian centers each week have been able to take their next steps out of shelter and towards building a life of self-sufficiency. As a result of these updates, the city has been able to close or schedule the closure of numerous shelters, including the Randall’s Island tented humanitarian relief center.
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Source: The Office of the Mayor