{"id":254,"date":"2023-10-05T13:08:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T13:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=254"},"modified":"2023-10-26T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:10:40","slug":"new-legislation-would-end-limits-on-shelter-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/10\/05\/new-legislation-would-end-limits-on-shelter-stays\/","title":{"rendered":"New legislation would end limits on shelter stays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/new-legislation-would-end-limits-on-shelter-stays\">News 12<\/a> &#8211; Mayor\u00a0Eric\u00a0Adams has tightened rules to limit adult migrants to 30 days in city-run facilities, but now there is a proposal to change that.<\/p>\n<p>Council&nbsp;Member&nbsp;Shahana Hanif is introducing a new bill that would prohibit the city or mayor from imposing restrictions on the length of a shelter stay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hanif tells News 12, &#8220;We are hearing from asylum seekers across the city who have received these notices that this is creating further confusion for them, further destabilizing them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hanif&nbsp;also wants a focus on expanding housing and legal services.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can&#8217;t manage the influx of asylum seekers from a short-term crisis emergency framework,&#8221; said Hanif. &#8220;We have to understand and acknowledge that the movement of people into\u00a0New York City\u00a0is not going to stop.&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/new-legislation-would-end-limits-on-shelter-stays\">Watch<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/new-legislation-would-end-limits-on-shelter-stays\">News 12<\/a> &#8211; Mayor\u00a0Eric\u00a0Adams has tightened rules to limit adult migrants to 30 days in city-run facilities, but now there is a proposal to change that.<\/p>\n<p>Council&nbsp;Member&nbsp;Shahana Hanif is introducing a new bill that would prohibit the city or mayor from imposing restrictions on the length of a shelter stay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hanif tells News 12, &#8220;We are hearing from asylum seekers across the city who have received these notices that this is creating further confusion for them, further destabilizing them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/10\/05\/new-legislation-would-end-limits-on-shelter-stays\/\">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-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}