"Mayor Mamdani now wants a plan to bring all facilities back in compliance with rules about capacity and other standards. On Tuesday morning, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued an executive order requiring the Department of Social Services and Department of Homeless Services (DHS), in tandem with the Law Department, to create a plan to phase out the use of emergency shelters for migrants that don't meet longstanding city standards."
"The move marks the end of a chaotic, nearly three-year chapter in New York's shelter system, during which the city scrambled to open dozens of emergency sites in response to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers-facilities that didn't have to meet the same standards for space and resources required under city law. The city has been shuttering these sites over the last year, as the number of new immigrant arrivals declined."
Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued an executive order directing the Department of Social Services and the Department of Homeless Services, in coordination with the Law Department, to produce a plan within 45 days to phase out emergency migrant shelters that do not meet longstanding city standards. The plan must restore full compliance with regulations on capacity and requirements such as kitchens in family facilities by Feb. 19. The move follows a temporary suspension of some right-to-shelter rules during a 2024 influx of migrants and asylum seekers that allowed rapid activation of emergency sites. The city has been closing such sites as arrivals declined.
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