{"id":217,"date":"2023-05-08T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=217"},"modified":"2023-06-08T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:35:07","slug":"a-year-after-the-first-asylum-seeker-buses-left-texas-is-nyc-ready-for-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/05\/08\/a-year-after-the-first-asylum-seeker-buses-left-texas-is-nyc-ready-for-more\/","title":{"rendered":"A year after the first asylum seeker buses left Texas, is NYC ready for more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/a-year-after-the-first-asylum-seeker-buses-left-texas-is-nyc-ready-for-more?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=shared_twitter\">Gothamist<\/a> &#8211; The city needs to invest more resources toward resolving the underlying problem areas \u2014 shrinking the perennially high shelter population by fast-tracking residents into long-term housing, said Lander and Councilmember Shahana Hanif, the head of the immigration committee.<\/p>\n<p>They also argue that the city needs to invest more money, $70 million by Lander\u2019s estimate, into legal services to clear the biggest hurdle now for many to get a work permit: filing an asylum application.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like we are moving backwards,\u201d Hanif said. \u201cWhile the temporary shelter model is a start, a year in, for folks to be warehoused in these shelters is not a response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not doing a great job. We&#8217;ve done the bare minimum,\u201d she said [<a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/a-year-after-the-first-asylum-seeker-buses-left-texas-is-nyc-ready-for-more?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=shared_twitter\">Read More<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/a-year-after-the-first-asylum-seeker-buses-left-texas-is-nyc-ready-for-more?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=shared_twitter\">Gothamist<\/a> &#8211; The city needs to invest more resources toward resolving the underlying problem areas \u2014 shrinking the perennially high shelter population by fast-tracking residents into long-term housing, said Lander and Councilmember Shahana Hanif, the head of the immigration committee.<\/p>\n<p>They also argue that the city needs to invest more money, $70 million by Lander\u2019s estimate, into legal services to clear the biggest hurdle now for many to get a work permit: filing an asylum application.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/05\/08\/a-year-after-the-first-asylum-seeker-buses-left-texas-is-nyc-ready-for-more\/\">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-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}