NYC Paves Way to Send Homeless Population to Upstate Counties That Rejected Migrant Relocation

New York City hopes to ease the pressure on its overcrowded shelter system by paying homeless New Yorkers to move upstate.
NYC Paves Way to Send Homeless Population to Upstate Counties That Rejected Migrant Relocation
A homeless man sleeps on subway train seats in New York in this file photo taken on April 14, 2021. Richard Drew/AP Photo
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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New York City will soon be subsidizing its homeless and low-income residents to live upstate, a move that follows months-long unsuccessful efforts to resettle illegal immigrants to the counties north of the city.

New York Mayor Eric Adams said on Tuesday that he would  issue an emergency decree that would, for the first time, allow people to use city-funded housing vouchers anywhere in the Empire State.

Bill Pan
Bill Pan
Reporter
Bill Pan is an Epoch Times reporter covering education issues and New York news.
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