{"id":114,"date":"2022-07-25T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=114"},"modified":"2022-08-14T12:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T12:57:43","slug":"adams-blames-migrants-for-shelter-woes-critics-say-thats-too-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2022\/07\/25\/adams-blames-migrants-for-shelter-woes-critics-say-thats-too-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams Blames Migrants for Shelter Woes. Critics Say That\u2019s Too Simple."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/25\/nyregion\/asylum-migrant-homeless-nyc.html\">New York Times<\/a> &#8211; The image of children sleeping on hard plastic chairs in an office lit by fluorescent lights harkens back decades to a grittier era of New York, an image that Mr. Adams would like to erase as he seeks to attract the Democratic National Convention in 2024. That effort may already be hampered by the perception \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/15\/nyregion\/eric-adams-crime-nyc.html\">which he sometimes propagates<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 that serious crime is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/08\/nyregion\/bodega-stabbing-jose-alba.html\">spinning out of control<\/a>\u00a0in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city\u2019s failure to build adequate amounts of affordable housing should not be blamed on \u201cpeople fleeing violence from other countries,\u201d said Shahana Hanif, a city councilwoman who is chairwoman of the Council\u2019s Immigration Committee [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/25\/nyregion\/asylum-migrant-homeless-nyc.html\">Read More<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/25\/nyregion\/asylum-migrant-homeless-nyc.html\">New York Times<\/a> &#8211; The image of children sleeping on hard plastic chairs in an office lit by fluorescent lights harkens back decades to a grittier era of New York, an image that Mr. Adams would like to erase as he seeks to attract the Democratic National Convention in 2024. That effort may already be hampered by the perception \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/15\/nyregion\/eric-adams-crime-nyc.html\">which he sometimes propagates<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 that serious crime is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/08\/nyregion\/bodega-stabbing-jose-alba.html\">spinning out of control<\/a>\u00a0in the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2022\/07\/25\/adams-blames-migrants-for-shelter-woes-critics-say-thats-too-simple\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}