In the latest hearing on the migrant crisis in New York, City Council members raised questions on Friday about food cost disparities between the 92 emergency shelters the city’s Department of Homeless Services (DHS) has put online to house tens of thousands of newcomers who’ve arrived here in the past year and the seven relief centers the city also erected to handle the influx.
Julie Won (D-Queens), who chairs the City Council Committee on Contracts, led the questioning during the panel’s oversight hearing looking into hundreds of millions of dollars the city has spent on contracts for housing asylum seekers and providing them services. There to testify from Mayor Eric Adams’ administration were Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Commissioner Zach Iscol, NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H) Senior Vice President Dr. Ted Long and DHS First Deputy Commissioner Molly Wasow Park.
