{"id":255,"date":"2023-10-06T13:10:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=255"},"modified":"2023-10-26T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:15:54","slug":"brooklyn-city-council-member-seeks-to-block-mayor-adams-limits-on-shelter-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/10\/06\/brooklyn-city-council-member-seeks-to-block-mayor-adams-limits-on-shelter-stays\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn City Council member seeks to block Mayor Adams\u2019 limits on shelter stays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/migrant-crisis-limits-block-shelter-stays\/\">AM NY<\/a> &#8211; The time limit policy, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/nyc-30-day-cap-shelter-migrants-adams\/\">caps the length of shelter stays<\/a>\u00a0for single adult newcomers at 30 days (recently, it had been dropped from 60 days), was introduced earlier this year as a means of freeing up shelter beds as thousands of migrants continue pouring into the city every week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While introducing the bill at the council\u2019s by-monthly meeting on Thursday, Hanif \u2014 a frequent critic of the mayor \u2014 blasted the so-called 30-day rule as \u201cundeniably cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cForcing people out of the shelter makes it harder to apply for asylum, TPS (Temporary Protected Status) and work permits due to address change and lack of stability,\u201d Hanif said. \u201cWe need to be setting our new arrivals up for self-sufficiency, not kicking them to the street. And let\u2019s be clear, street homelessness is the inevitable outcome of the 30-day rule.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/migrant-crisis-limits-block-shelter-stays\/\">Read More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/migrant-crisis-limits-block-shelter-stays\/\">AM NY<\/a> &#8211; The time limit policy, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/nyc-30-day-cap-shelter-migrants-adams\/\">caps the length of shelter stays<\/a>\u00a0for single adult newcomers at 30 days (recently, it had been dropped from 60 days), was introduced earlier this year as a means of freeing up shelter beds as thousands of migrants continue pouring into the city every week.<\/p>\n<p>While introducing the bill at the council\u2019s by-monthly meeting on Thursday, Hanif \u2014 a frequent critic of the mayor \u2014 blasted the so-called 30-day rule as \u201cundeniably cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForcing people out of the shelter makes it harder to apply for asylum, TPS (Temporary Protected Status) and work permits due to address change and lack of stability,\u201d Hanif said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2023\/10\/06\/brooklyn-city-council-member-seeks-to-block-mayor-adams-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-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}