Executive Order No. 43 shall take effect immediately as it relates to Establishing an interagency City Housing Activation Taskforce, to address the housing shortage, dated August 21, 2024; and shall expire and be deemed revoked on December 31, 2024.
Executive Order No. 38 is being submitted as the Establishment of the Task Force, establishing an interagency Housing at Risk Task Force, dated December 6, 2023. This order shall take effect immediately.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today signed Intro. 209-A, which will prohibit discrimination on the basis of a person’s height or weight in employment, housing, and public accommodations.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams today kicked off efforts for a community-led planning process to create new jobs and housing and deliver streetscape improvements in Jamaica, Queens.
“The package of legislation to expand eligibility for housing vouchers being considered by the City Council today, while well intentioned, would do significant harm to the most vulnerable unhoused New Yorkers,” said New York City Department of Social Services Commissioner Molly Park.
We proposed to the City Council that we work together to remove the 90-day rule for families experiencing homelessness to connect them with housing vouchers faster. They rejected that proposal, and today passed a package of bills that will make it harder for New Yorkers
Tomorrow, New York City Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom will hold a briefing on New York City’s continued response to the asylum seeker humanitarian crisis as the city continues to receive hundreds of new arrivals every day.
From the start, let us be clear, that we are in no way seeking to end of the right to shelter. Today’s action will allow us to get clarity from the court and preserve the right to shelter for the tens of thousands in our care — both previously unhoused individuals and asylum seekers.
When you speak with the police that's up here, they will tell you with hundreds of people in one facility, we're having no problems at an asylum seekers at all. They're here to contribute to our society, not take away from our society.
I'm really calling on all of us to take notice that this is going to impact every city service that we deliver to the people of this city. And it's just wrong. New York City should not be carrying a burden of a national problem.