Shelter stays for single adult migrants will be limited to 30 days unless there are “extenuating circumstances,” following a settlement agreement reached Friday between the city and the Legal Aid Society.
The settlement comes in the wake of court proceedings brought by the city last May that sought to alter the right-to-shelter rule so that it would no longer apply to the tens of thousands of migrants who have been arriving in the five boroughs since spring 2022. The agreement was reached after roughly five months of court-mediated negotiations between the city, Legal Aid and the state — although the state was not part of Friday’s settlement.
