City of NYwhere the flow of immigrants has not stopped since 2022, is being prepared for the largest shelter for new arrivals, with the capacity to 2000 people, but the number could be higher, according to the newspaper “City”.
People will be accommodated in student dormitories spread over several floors of two buildings in a complex in the county Brooklynwhere a week ago it quietly opened a men’s shelter with capacity for 600 people. The second building that will be added to it can have up to 1400 people.
The mayor’s office said Tuesday that it plans to house up to 2,000 people in the buildings, which are located near an industrial complex. Brooklyn Navy Yardbut a source from the City Council assures “Grad” that the figure could exceed 2,000 people.
Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency last year due to an influx of immigrants who filled the city’s shelters, forcing hotels in both the metropolitan area and the north of the country to house families with children, women and singles for separate .
He also decried that the situation has created a financial crisis, which is why he asked the federal government for financial assistance, saying that the issue of immigration is an unresolved national problem, but his claim, which was supported by the governor Kathy Hochulwas not heard.
New York provides refuge to some 100,000 people of which 84,000 They are recently arrived immigrants, mostly Venezuelans, and they are waiting for a work permit. The city has projected that it will spend $4.3 billion by the end of 2025 to address the crisis caused by the influx of immigrants.
“We’re getting hundreds a week. The numbers are growing, and it’s still hard work for this city,” Adams said at a press conference today.
Spokesman of the mayor, Fabian Levihe told “Grad” that city plans are subject to change as needed.
He also pointed out that the men’s shelter already operating in the neighborhood Clinton Hill in Brooklyn it has a capacity for 600 adults, and the second one will have 1,400 people, but he did not go into further details.
If the new shelter could accommodate the 2,000 people the city plans to house there, only the Hotel Rour hotel in midtown Manhattan It would accommodate more immigrants, since there are a thousand rooms where families with children are accommodated, the newspaper reminds.
“So many people at the collection center are raising questions about safety, health and the staff” who care for them, Dave Giffen, executive director of the Coalition for the Homeless, told the newspaper.
Source: Panama America
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