Outreach Groups Navigate a Broken System Amid Migrant Crisis

Mayor Eric Adams gave his 2023 rose and thorn in a press interview Sunday morning. The rose: more private sector jobs. The thorn: New York City’s Migrant Crisis, which is predicted to cost the city over $12 billion in the next three years, and which has sparked dislike for Adams. Happy New Year. As more than 150,000 migrants have sought asylum in NYC this year and calls for federal aid have been denied, Adams says the city’s resources are stretched thin. Recently, the city imposed a 60-day limit on how long migrant families can stay at one shelter, toeing the legal line of a right to shelter. Attempting to manage the detrimental effects of a lack of effective policy and aid, some homeless outreach services say they’re working double time. Yet operating in and around the overcrowded, limited-resource NYC shelter system proves difficult. With homemade Sunday meals, case management, peer groups, and HIV/STI testing and prevention, one outreach group named New Alternatives has been helping

Mayor Eric Adams gave his 2023 rose and thorn in a press interview Sunday morning. The rose: more private sector jobs. The thorn: New York City’s Migrant Crisis, which is predicted to cost the city over $12 billion in the next three years, and which has sparked dislike for Adams. Happy New Year. As more than 150,000 migrants have sought asylum in NYC this year and calls for federal aid have been denied, Adams says the city’s resources are stretched thin. Recently, the city imposed a 60-day limit on how long migrant families can stay at one shelter, toeing the legal line of a right to shelter.