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New York's Migrant Housing Crisis and the 60-Day Shelter Limit
from K5 & Digidog | The Tim Dillon Show #362 · #362
4 min
Tim opens on the migrant crisis in New York City, describing thousands of asylum seekers being housed in hotels like the Roosevelt, and Mayor Eric Adams' push to suspend the right-to-shelter mandate, cutting shelter stays down to 60 days.
- New York City's migrant crisis is the new Ellis Island, with hundreds flooding into the Roosevelt Hotel.
- Tim argues mass migration from unstable countries to also unstable ones will be the defining issue of the next decade, alongside climate and technology.
- The migration question—how many migrants a society can absorb before buckling—drove Brexit and political upheaval across Europe.
- New York's progressive Upper West Siders claim to want to help but privately whisper complaints about their neighborhoods changing.
- Real estate agents tell clients to avoid new buildings with migrant housing because residents share the same elevators.
- Wealthy New Yorkers won't publicly say neighborhoods are being overrun; instead they frame it as a numbers problem.
- Mayor Eric Adams is now pushing to suspend New York's right-to-shelter mandate rather than continue housing migrants in hotels.
- New York's mandate requires the city to provide a bed to anyone who asks for one.
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