Religious leaders have offered up 50 faith-based locations to help house asylum seekers overnight across the five boroughs as part of a new two-year partnership with the New York Disaster Interfait…
Dozens of houses of worship scattered across New York City will start sheltering migrants next month as the Big Apple continues to battle the overwhelming influx of asylum seekers flooding in, Mayor Eric Adams said Monday.
“Not only will this increase the space we have by nearly 1,000 beds, but it will also connect asylum seekers with local communities.” The city is currently bursting at the seams to house 45,900 asylum seekers in 157 emergency sites set up across the five boroughs.The latest faith-based shelter plan comes months after the mayor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Partnerships begged the city’s religious leaders for help clothing the thousands of asylum seekers staying in the Big Apple’s migrant shelters.
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