A day after Mayor Eric Adams said he would oppose an effort to reduce homelessness by increasing the number of housing vouchers, his top housing official said she would step down.
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New York City Asks for Relief From Its Right-to-Shelter Mandate
City officials say that the arrival of 65,000 asylum seekers has presented the city “with challenges never contemplated, foreseeable or indeed even remotely imagined.”
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Mayor Adams Opposes Bills That Could Make It Easier to Leave Shelters
The bills, expected to be passed this week by the City Council, would end a rule that people must be in shelters for 90 days before becoming eligible for housing vouchers.
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Do New York’s Affordable Housing Lotteries Fuel Segregation?
An eight-year legal battle over whether community preferences for low-cost housing violate housing discrimination law has been cleared for trial.
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Thousands of NYC Hotel Rooms Are Open, Despite Migrant Arrivals
The mayor has said the influx of migrants staying in hotel rooms could affect tourism, but about 20,500 hotel rooms remain unoccupied.