New York City will now begin housing migrants in houses of worship — the city’s latest attempt to manage the more than 72,000 people who’ve flowed into the city since last spring.
Standing in the City Hall rotunda flanked by dozens of faith leaders, Mayor Adams announced the creation of the faith-based shelter program Monday morning and hinted that his next step would be enlisting private residents to house migrants in their homes.
“This is an opportunity built on a crisis,” the mayor said of his new faith-based initiative. “We were in the process for months of sitting down with our faith leaders trying to navigate many of the complexities that are associated with how to use spaces as a place for respite centers and places that people can sleep — and at the same time maintain the worshiping services.”