The Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless threatened a suit against Mayor Eric Adams’ administration on Monday over several weekend instances of recently arrived migrants having to sleep in buses and on city streets.
The two groups, which have often acted as a check on City Hall’s response to the recent influx of migrants, said in a joint statement on July 31 that allowing asylum seekers to sleep on the streets “runs afoul” of multiple laws and court orders. That includes Gotham’s landmark right-to-shelter law, which stipulates the city must give a shelter bed to any person seeking one — a legal obligation Adams’ office is currently trying to overturn in court.
