It Begins… NYC Gives Migrants 30 Days To Leave
Summary
TLDRThe New York Times reports a significant policy change in New York City regarding the housing of adult migrants. After 30 days, they will no longer be allowed to reapply for housing, leaving thousands in a precarious situation. The city has been receiving a large number of migrants weekly, and while the surge has temporarily slowed, officials anticipate an increase in the summer. The city's shelters, criticized for their poor conditions, are now only a temporary solution, as asylum seekers are moved into city-funded apartments. However, there are concerns about the lack of support for single adults and the potential for increased homelessness and exploitation. The crisis raises questions about the city's approach to handling asylum seekers and the sustainability of the current system.
Takeaways
- 🏙️ New York City is implementing a change where adult migrants can only be housed in shelters for up to 30 days and cannot reapply for housing.
- 🚫 Asylum seekers who have been dependent on the government for support are now faced with the challenge of finding accommodation and sustaining themselves within a month.
- 🔥 There has been a significant surge in the number of migrants arriving in the city, with City Hall reporting up to 4,000 per week, although the rate has since slowed down.
- 🏠 The city has been moving asylum seekers into apartments it pays for, but this program is only available to families, leaving single adults without clear support.
- 📈 Critics argue that the city's decisions are creating more problems, as the forced evictions and homelessness may lead to increased crime and social issues.
- 🚌 Despite the city's directive to leave shelters, many asylum seekers may stay due to the difficulty of amending their application paperwork and the risk of denial.
- 🏢 There's a concern that the lack of support and services for single adults may push them into exploitative situations or force them into the informal labor economy.
- 💼 New York's housing crisis and high rents make it extremely challenging for asylum seekers to find affordable housing and achieve self-sufficiency.
- 🏛️ The city's housing laws, while protective of tenants, may inadvertently make it harder for vulnerable populations, including asylum seekers, to secure housing.
- 🤝 Some community organizations and churches are stepping in to help find housing and provide support for migrants, but the high cost of living in New York remains a significant barrier.
- 🌆 The overall situation highlights a broken system that may not be effectively addressing the needs of the asylum seekers and could be leading to more harm than good.
Q & A
What is the new policy regarding the housing of adult migrants in New York City?
-The new policy states that after 30 days, adult migrants will not be allowed to reapply for housing in New York City.
How has the city's approach towards asylum seekers' housing changed recently?
-The city is now moving asylum seekers into apartments that it pays for, but this program only applies to families and does not include plans to provide for single adults.
What was the initial expectation for asylum seekers coming to New York City?
-Asylum seekers were under the impression that the city would take care of them for as long as it took for their asylum applications to clear.
What challenges do asylum seekers face after being told to find housing within 30 days?
-Asylum seekers face challenges such as the inability to work immediately, lack of English proficiency, limited educational background, and the high cost of living in New York City.
What is the impact of New York's housing laws on asylum seekers trying to find an apartment?
-New York's housing laws, which are supposed to protect renters, disincentivize landlords from taking a risk on individuals who may have just been in the shelter system, making it harder for them to find a place to live.
How does the city's shelter system contribute to the ongoing housing crisis?
-The city's shelter system may be contributing to the housing crisis by creating a population that relies on it for support without a clear exit strategy, leading to people resorting to living in unsafe and illegal conditions.
What is the role of the St Bridget Academy in this situation?
-The St Bridget Academy serves as a place for people who have been evicted from shelters to reapply for an exemption or to get a plane or bus ticket to another location.
How are some migrants finding alternative housing options?
-Some migrants are finding alternative housing options through small business owners who are subletting their apartments to them, although this may not be legal or safe.
What is the connection between the city's humanitarian crisis and the rise in crime?
-The city's humanitarian crisis, with its large population of vulnerable people, provides an opportunity for criminals to exploit and commit crimes such as robberies and identity theft.
What criticism does the current system of homeless shelters face?
-Critics argue that the system of homeless shelters is not effectively helping people get on their feet and may be trapping them in a cycle of homelessness without providing the necessary support for self-sufficiency.
What potential solutions are being discussed to address the issues faced by asylum seekers in New York City?
-Potential solutions include expanding the homeless shelter system, changing the system to better support people in gaining independence, and decentralizing the migrant intake to encourage rooting and integration into society.
Outlines
🏙️ New York City's Migrant Housing Crisis
This paragraph discusses the significant changes in New York City's policy regarding the housing of adult migrants. After 30 days, adult migrants will no longer be allowed to reapply for housing, leaving thousands of asylum seekers with a 30-day window to find alternative living arrangements. The city has been receiving a large number of migrants weekly, leading to overcrowded and unsafe sleeping conditions in shelters. The city's response has been to move asylum seekers into apartments it pays for, but this program only applies to families, leaving single adults without a clear plan. Critics argue that this policy change will lead to more problems, as migrants may not be able to support themselves and could end up in exploitative situations. The paragraph also highlights the challenges faced by migrants in finding housing due to strict landlord requirements and the city's own housing laws, which may inadvertently make it difficult for recent shelter residents to secure their own apartments.
🌆 The Struggle for Asylum Seekers in New York
This paragraph delves into the challenges faced by asylum seekers in New York City, who are now subject to a 30-day limit in shelters and must find ways to support themselves in one of the most expensive cities in America. The paragraph discusses the city's massive support network and the potential for migrants to connect with local communities, but also highlights the difficulties of finding employment without English proficiency or higher education. The city's housing laws, designed to protect renters, may inadvertently make it harder for vulnerable populations to find housing, as landlords are wary of the risk of tenants becoming squatters. The paragraph also touches on the city's housing crisis, with only 1% of apartments available for rent, and the high costs of living that make it nearly impossible for asylum seekers to afford housing and sustain themselves without assistance.
🏥 The Humanitarian Crisis and Exploitation
This paragraph focuses on the exploitation of vulnerable migrants in the context of New York City's humanitarian crisis. It discusses the potential for migrants to fall into exploitative situations, such as illegal shelters and informal labor, as a result of the city's policy changes. The paragraph highlights the case of a small business owner in Queens who was busted for cramming migrants into illegal shelters and is now subletting to African migrants as a new plan. It also discusses the city's high rents and the challenges of affording housing, especially for those who cannot work immediately. The paragraph further explores the role of churches in providing housing and support, and the importance of requiring accountability from those being helped. It ends with a discussion of how the city's policies may be contributing to a system that fails to provide a sustainable solution for migrants and instead traps them in a cycle of dependency and hardship.
🚨 The Failing System and its Consequences
This paragraph examines the consequences of New York City's failing system for housing migrants and asylum seekers. It discusses the city's high cost of living and the impossibility for many to support themselves, even with a job. The paragraph highlights the impact of the city's policies on creating a population reliant on the system with no clear exit strategy. It also touches on the increase in crime, with criminals exploiting the vulnerability of migrants, and the city's policies that critics argue are too lenient on crime. The paragraph concludes with a call to question the effectiveness of the current system and to consider whether it is truly helping people or trapping them in a cycle of homelessness and dependency. It invites viewers to reflect on potential solutions that would allow the city to address the crisis without perpetuating the issues.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Migrants
💡Asylum Seekers
💡Homeless Shelters
💡Affordable Housing
💡Illegal Shelters
💡Humanitarian Crisis
💡Exploitation
💡Crisis Management
💡Support Networks
💡Housing Policies
💡Informal Labor Economy
Highlights
New York City is implementing a major change in the housing policy for asylum seekers, limiting their stay in shelters to 30 days.
After 30 days, adult migrants will not be allowed to reapply for housing, leaving thousands of government-dependent individuals with limited options.
City Hall has been receiving as many as 4,000 migrants a week, and despite a slowed surge, officials anticipate an increase during the summer.
The city's decision to move asylum seekers into apartments it pays for only applies to families, leaving single adults without clear support.
The policy change has led to criticism, with some arguing it creates more problems by forcing evictions and homelessness.
Asylum seekers face the challenge of amending their application paperwork if they leave the shelter system, risking denial of their asylum application.
The city's new policy has resulted in some asylum seekers finding refuge in illegal shelters, highlighting the lack of viable alternatives.
A small business owner in Queens, previously busted for illegal shelters, is now subletting to African migrants in a legal housing arrangement.
180,000 people have arrived in New York since the crisis began, many under the impression that the city would provide long-term support.
The city's sudden policy shift leaves many migrants in a difficult situation, with some turning to exploitative living conditions.
New York's housing laws, designed to protect renters, inadvertently make it harder for asylum seekers to find apartments due to strict landlord requirements.
Asylum seekers often find themselves in an informal labor economy due to restrictions on their ability to work and the high cost of living in New York.
The Reformed Church of Highland Park in New Jersey is offering a unique solution by finding landlords and guaranteeing funds for migrants, thus providing a more sustainable housing model.
New York's housing crisis exacerbates the challenges faced by asylum seekers, with only 1% of the city's apartments available for rent.
The city's high cost of living makes it extremely difficult for low-income individuals, including asylum seekers, to afford basic necessities.
The crisis has led to an increase in crime, with a gang exploiting vulnerable migrants for financial gain.
Critics argue that New York's lenient crime policies enable such criminal activities to thrive.
The shelter system is criticized for not providing a clear path for migrants to become self-sufficient and for potentially trapping them in a cycle of homelessness.
There is a call for the city to reevaluate its policies and systems to better support asylum seekers in achieving independence and integration into society.
Transcripts
New York City where there is set to be a
major change in how long migrants must
be housed in the Big Apple the New York
Times is now reporting that after 30
days adult migrants will not be allowed
to reapply for housing so New York is
giving Asylum Seekers 30 days to move
out but where are thousands of people
totally dependent upon the government
for everything supposed to just suddenly
move to and survive nobody's going to
like the answer to that
question hundreds of people taking over
the intersection of 25th Avenue and 86th
Street to stop a homeless shelter from
opening towards the end of last year
City Hall says they were receiving as
many as 4,000 migrants a week since then
the surge has slowed but City officials
believe it might pick back up again in
the summer last week I believe it was
1,300 which is still a lot of people but
now we've been able to adjust with over
200 sites this video shows the cram
sleeping conditions officials ultimately
determined the conditions were unsafe
it's just going cause more problems than
we already have but we are still seeing
about two to three buses a day still
coming into New York City homeless
shelters don't help homeless people and
we are not going to be silent about
it so the city is now moving Asylum
Seekers into apartments that it pays for
but this program only applies to
families and what nobody's talking about
is that the city has zero plans to
provide Ed for the thousands of single
adults that it's been caring for for
months but suddenly wishes weren't here
for some reason and now the city is
essentially saying to these people go
live your life be free except they can't
actually do that and that's almost as
bad of a plan as telling people they can
come here and live in a shelter forever
which was the first plan and was
completely unsustainable and critics are
saying the reaction to that these forced
evictions and homelessness is just going
to create more problems for the city
because they're following up one bad
decision with another bad decision and
you've got human beings on the other end
of this that were essentially misled and
now we're in a very tough position
because after you apply for Asylum if
you get on a bus and leave you've got to
amend all of your application paperwork
and that could cause you to get denied
and that's why even though the city is
telling people they've got to go most
people are going to try to stay and this
has people suggesting the city may have
just made the whole Asylum crisis worse
and to understand why people are saying
that you've got to realize that the
folks who are now getting evicted are
faced with the worst of choices for what
they're going to do
next
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so this here is the St Bridget Academy
it's where people who've been evicted
from shelters can go to either reapply
and try to get an exemption or where
they can go to get a plane ticket or a
bus ticket anywhere in the world but
since you can no longer reapply for
shelter and the only thing most people
are going to get from here is a plane
ticket somewhere else there's no one
waiting in line behind these barricades
and this is quite a different scene from
how things have been in months past and
makes you wonder if people aren't able
to get housing here but they want to
stay in the city where are they finding
places to Live new tonight now a small
business owner in Queens busted for
cramming dozens of migrants into two
illegal shelters says that he has a new
plan to house them legally he's
subletting to a group of African
migrants some of them unloading their
luggage tonight after a long bus so here
we have a business owner who's got an
apartment that they've set up for people
who can't get help from the city anymore
but the reason he's on the news is
because his last shelter was in an
illegal furniture store with 70 beds
inside of it a commercial space like
this no one's supposed to live here
because it's not an apartment but it had
been set up with bunk beds and sheets
and everything people were paying $300
for a spot in a bunk but the thing
nobody's talking about is that 180,000
people have come here since this Crisis
began and they came because they were
under the impression the city was going
to take care of them for as long as it
took for Asylum applications to clear
but now the city has suddenly said you
know what we're not going to help
anybody anymore and that has left a lot
of people in a really tough situation
and even though the new apartment this
individual has looks fine take a look at
what experts think might still be out
there as an option of Last Resort people
are now turning to this video shows the
cram sleeping conditions the city said
complaints LED them to SAR and the
migrants officials ultimately determined
the conditions were unsafe we
immediately you know with so many vacant
commercial stores in New York this is
definitely not a one-off scenario and
the way that these illegal shelters are
getting discovered is you'll find a
whole bunch of ebikes or moped parked
outside and you'll see lots of people
coming out of a building that shouldn't
really have anything going on inside of
it and the thing is spaces like this are
all over town but as bad as this might
sound it's not that different from how
the city's own shelters are run the only
difference is they've got the city's
stamp of approval but that approval came
with a lot of loopholes and Corner
cutting one particular facility in ganas
Brooklyn is on a parcel of land so toxic
private apartment development was never
allowed there but then because of the
humanitarian emergency they green lit
the project and allowed people to put a
shelter there and research reveals that
particular landlord has a history of
building homeless shelters for the city
and is pretty well connected so he's
making money the guy with the illegal
shelters is making money the only
difference is one is City approved and
one isn't but if people are trying to
stay in the city this might be their
only option and it's scary to think that
all of the people the city is no longer
helping could end up in exploitative
situations that's the sad reality of
this situation whether you agree with
how the city's handling this crisis or
not the people that came here thought
they were going to get help and then
suddenly yoink the help is gone towards
the end of last year City Hall says they
were receiving as many as 4,000 migrants
a week since then the surge has slowed
but City officials believe it might pick
back up again in the summer so the new
Total 184,000 Asylum Seekers and the
news reporters speculate more people are
coming and that's likely because even
though the rules for who can stay in a
shelter and for how long have changed
New York is going to remain a top
destination for those seeking Asylum
because even though the city's only
letting people stay in shelters for 30
days now there's still a massive support
network here for people people who may
not speak the language and need help
filing paperwork and look at all the
different languages the instructions are
written on here this is an international
City and there's a very good chance
folks that come here from somewhere else
will be able to connect with a local
community that can help them throughout
this process as well which means even
after all these changes to the shelter
system New York is still going to be
bearing a lot of this crisis and the
more I look into this crisis the more it
just seems like a total trap for the
very people it's supposed to assist for
example how are 70,000 people who can't
work and who may not have a college
degree or even English proficiency how
are they supposed to get a job to afford
the expensive rents here and on top of
that the city's own housing laws that
are supposed to protect vulnerable
renters have an unintended byproduct of
disincentivizing landlords from taking a
risk on folks who may have just been in
the shelter system which means they
might never find their own Apartments
even though the city's now telling them
they have to in 30
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days
while some migrants claiming Asylum can
work right away depending on where they
are coming from many can't that forces
many migrants into an informal labor
economy to try to make ends meet finding
jobs such as so the problem that a lot
of Asylum Seekers have when they look
for an apartment is that New York Is So
Pro tenant landlords are strict they
want a lot of proof of how much you make
and what your credit score is before
they'll move you in because in this city
after you live somewhere for 30 days you
have the legal right to that property
and the landlord can't AV vict you yes
in New York you have squatter's rights
now this doesn't mean Asylum Seekers
will turn into squatters if they get an
apartment but it does mean many
landlords aren't willing to take that
risk just in case it's there and these
laws that are supposed to protect people
actually make it harder for the needy to
find a place to live and it's enough of
a nightmare for people that are born and
raised in this country with a full-time
job and a salary and established credit
to get a place often times people that
make enough money for something will get
told no for having less than perfect
credit and what if you've just moved
here you don't even have credit and now
the city's telling you that in 30 days
you've got to go and find a place and
how is someone with an off the- books
job at a little restaurant supposed to
prove they make enough to afford rent
and compounding this problem for Asylum
Seekers is that New York is in the
middle of a housing crisis only 1% of
the city's apartments are available to
be rented and now people are being told
to leave a shelter and go compete for
apartments against somebody who works at
Google and might want to rent that same
apartment is it any wonder why people
are winding up in abandoned storefronts
paying money to sleep in an IKEA bunk
bed with 70 other people terrible
horrendous option but people are
actually finding help in one of the most
unlikeliest of places the auditorium of
the Reformed Church of Highland Park
holds the promise of a future in the
United States the church finds the
landlords and guarantees the funds
they're the mediator between the
landlord and the Tenant with the promise
that soon the person will be up and
running on their own here's how
interesting thing about this it's a
church in New Jersey but New Jersey is
just across the water from New York
people may be able to live in an
apartment there and still come back to
the shelter here to get their mail and a
real apartment is definitely preferable
to an illegal store or basement
apartment and the church has taken care
of the paperwork problem by guaranteeing
the rent of everybody they place but
unfortunately rents in New York are so
expensive this church would probably go
broke if they tried that the process
decentralizes the migrant intake and
most importantly encourages people to
put down Roots find work pay taxes and
you know this church run housing
operation this sounds way better than
the shelters and the illegal shelters
because it's doing the one thing no
homeless shelter does which is that it's
requiring a level of accountability on
behalf of the person that it's helping
but this actually brings up another
issue nobody's talking about which is
that New York is America's most
expensive city this is the worst
possible place you could be trapped even
if you've got an unlimited stay in a
city-run
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shelter the truth is the crisis is sort
of like the frosting on top of an
existing affordability crisis that is
here in New York and in other cities we
want people to have a safe place to
sleep at night so there you have it the
sad fact of the matter is is that no
matter what the city tells people to do
their ability to do it in America's most
expensive city where rents recently hit
$5,600 a month is probably impossible
even folks living here that make
$100,000 a year are only left with
around $36,000 of spending power after
taxes and rent and most of New York is
broke and it's not just that rents here
are insane and unaffordable when you go
to the grocery store and you try to buy
something to feed yourself that costs
more as well because the rent for that
business is expensive all of the fees
the business has to pay to exist are
higher here than elsewhere plus you've
got city taxes and not only is inflation
worse here than it is in most parts of
the country prices keep going up even on
basic city services like its broken
Transportation Network and that's why it
just seems so crazy that the city
created a population of people that were
relying on it for its help and now it's
told them hey go figure it out how are
they going to do that and how exactly
does it benefit people to be trapped in
New York City with no way to provide for
themselves we know it benefits the
system of buses and trains and planes
that bring people here we know it
benefits the homeless shelter complex
which houses people but how exactly does
it benefit the people who are dependent
upon it even the families that are still
able to reside in shelters without
eviction how is it helping them to be
there forever a lot of the migrants are
dealing with a lot of De
because of the treatment that the city
giving them they feel like there is no
one that is going to help them anymore
now here's where the real problem lies
it's in this system that brought people
here and then suddenly cut them off
obviously New York cannot house everyone
forever everyone should have known that
going into this but now that we all know
there's still no exit strategy and this
is going to lead to people doing things
they would rather not to try and survive
and many Asylum Seekers feel misled by
this whole process the promise of coming
here and getting back on your feet with
a job never materialized just ask the
people who now have to leave the shelter
system and don't have a job that pays
enough for an apartment no I'm not
advocating that New York should continue
to house everybody forever they can't
but it's almost like nobody running the
shelter system thought about what was
going to happen to the people in it when
it suddenly stopped supporting them and
it's almost as if this entire system was
designed from the very beginning to fail
for some
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reason
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so unfortunately here at the police
precinct SL impound lot for mopeds we
see signs of a system that is totally
failing the people it's supposed to help
and a broken system is why you have so
many confiscated illegal mopeds which
were being used by people to commit
crime police say it is a sophisticated
ring that started back in November so
far police have arrested seven people
connected to the robberies but they
there are still others on the loose
including the alleged ring leader CVS
2's Ali bman live so the leader of this
gang when he was eventually caught he
told the authorities that the criminal
underworld in New York was much bigger
than him in his single operation which
spanned three different states and the
crime ring he was leading could only
exist in a city like New York because
it's got a large population of
vulnerable people gangs can try to
exploit and the thieves in this gang
used these mopeds to steal purses and
phones from New Yorkers walking walking
down the street which they would then
bring back to their Hideout which was
also an apartment building that had a
whole bunch of rooms in it where they
would break into the phones and drain
people's bank accounts it's incredibly
frightening and it's unfortunate that
New York's humanitarian crisis is being
taken advantage of by criminals police
say over the past three months this
group has mostly targeted women walking
alone and have made themselves hundreds
of thousands of dollars in stolen profit
Rail video now the other thing about New
York which is why it's so easy for
illegitimate operations like this to
thrive is the on crime policies that
critics say exist here for example you
can steal under $1,000 worth of stuff
and it's only a misdemeanor which is not
a jailable bailable offense critics say
laws like this hamstring how much police
can do to protect the general public and
to the criminals on the bikes every
single person walking down the street is
essentially a bank and if there aren't
any consequences for robbing people
people are going to continue to get
robbed and this brings us back to our
original question is the system of
homeless shelters and all of the
businesses that are making money on this
designed to actually help people or is
it doing something much worse
assemblyman William Colton represents
this District this is the wrong place
and it's the wrong policy homeless
shelters don't help homeless people and
we are not going to be silent about it
so this occurred at a rally in
Bensonhurst Brooklyn where a new shelter
was being set up and even though the
city is passing laws to limit shelter
stays there's still expanding the system
by renting out new buildings and signing
new contracts whenever they can and I
don't want to see people who have
nothing ending up on the street that's
terrible but how are we going to succeed
in New York if we expand A system that
makes people homeless and are systems
like this leading to good outcomes for
people or are they actually trapping
people and messing up their lives
further and critics say a lot of
well-meaning people in New York have
actually misplaced their compassion
because these expensive systems that
take care of everything for some people
aren't really helping them and many
people are wondering what is the endgame
for a system that brings people here but
doesn't allow them to support themselves
and as great as it is that people aren't
sleeping on the streets the shelter
system is not educating people and
teaching them how to move out of that
very same system but what do you think
the city should do in terms of this
crisis should the city expand the
homeless shelter system or should they
change what it does so that it actually
helps people get on their feet and
provide for themselves and if they did
that what exactly would it look like let
me know thanks for watching I'll see you
in the next video
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