On Monday, NYC Mayor Eric Adams said that he wants to house illegal aliens arriving in the city in “private residences”.
“It is my vision to take the next step to these faith-based locales and then move to a private residence,” Adams said during a City Hall press conference.
“There are residents who are suffering right now because of economic challenges. They have spare rooms…” he added.
“We can take that $4.2 billion, $4.3 even maybe now, that we potentially we have to spend, and we can put it back in the pockets of everyday, everyday houses of worship instead of putting it in the pockets of corporations,” he said.
Adams said they would figure out how to get around the “30-day rule”, which bars the city from housing homeless people in private residences.
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From the New York Post:
Mayor Eric Adams now wants to start paying every day New Yorkers to shelter migrants in their own homes – as the Big Apple struggles to find beds for the thousands of asylum seekers still flooding into the city.
In his latest attempt to battle the ongoing migrant crisis, Adams on Monday floated a half baked “private residence” plan, which could possibly see local homeowners getting compensation to put up asylum seekers.
Hizzoner put forward the proposal as he revealed religious leaders had agreed to start housing adult male migrants overnight at 50 places of worship scattered across the five boroughs next month.
Mayor Eric Adams now wants to start paying every day New Yorkers to shelter migrants in their own homes – as the Big Apple struggles to find beds for the thousands of asylum seekers still flooding into the city.
In his latest attempt to battle the ongoing migrant crisis, Adams on Monday floated a half baked “private residence” plan, which could possibly see local homeowners getting compensation to put up asylum seekers.
Hizzoner put forward the proposal as he revealed religious leaders had agreed to start housing adult male migrants overnight at 50 places of worship scattered across the five boroughs next month.
“There are residents who are suffering right now because of economic challenges. They have spare rooms. They have locales,” the mayor said, arguing his private residence proposal could put money back in the pockets of taxpayers.
Adams didn’t offer up specifics on how the plan would work – including how much New Yorkers could potentially receive per night to cover the cost of hosting a migrant. A spokesperson also did not respond when asked if the mayor would take in migrants at his home in Brooklyn.
He did say, however, that the city would pay places of worship a nightly rate of about $125 for each asylum seeker – which is cheaper than the $380 it costs to put up a migrant household – including a family with kids or just single adults – in one of its shelter hotels.
If the private residence plan went ahead, it could mean New Yorkers are being paid more to host a migrant than a foster parent is given to raise a child in the Empire State.
The state currently pays a daily allowance of $40 for children aged over 12 years, according to the Office of Children and Family Services.
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The city is currently bursting at the seams to house 45,900 asylum seekers in the 157 emergency sites set up across the five boroughs.
Roughly 2,200 migrants arrived at city shelters in the last week alone, according to City Hall.
The Adams administration has come under fire of late for the ways in which it’s trying to deal with the crisis – including temporarily housing migrants in elementary school gyms.
The newly announced faith-based plan, which is part of a new two-year partnership with the New York Disaster Interfaith Services, has the capacity to house roughly 1,000 migrants initially
