Tag: right to shelter

Calls for an "emergency pause" while the city grapples with the still-ongoing wave of asylum seekers.

Just seven of his words made all the headlines.

We are reposting this article because the “right to shelter” is at the center of the current migrant crisis facing NYC and the neighborhood.

Not a single New York City suburb - or any other city, town, or village in the state - stepped up to offer help.

"It is ridiculous in retrospect that we had to learn that homeless people did not want to live on the streets."

New York is the only major city in the country that offers a legal "right to shelter" to anyone within its borders who requests it.