The Sputtering Effort to Persuade Migrants to Leave New York
Briefly

The state emergency services commissioner said in November that this program wasn't working. Why isn't it? There are so many reasons. Many migrants don't want to leave New York City, where there are jobs, where you can get around without a car and where their kids are enrolled in public schools.
She and her family spent 13 months in a homeless shelter in New York City before moving to an apartment on Long Island, thanks to a $25 million program that was set up to relocate migrant families and ease the pressure on the city's shelter system.
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