From New York to LA, Housing Insecurity Is Undermining Immigrant Students
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NYC’s new policy of evicting families from shelters after 60 days is forcing children to repeatedly switch schools.
When New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a notice to asylum-seeking families in January informing them that they would be evicted from temporary shelters after a 60-day stay, they were told that “intensive case management” would be available to help them achieve economic self-sufficiency. In making this pronouncement, Adams ignored the city’s 43-year-old “right to shelter” law...