New York Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed that city officials are ready to move nearly 8000 homeless people from about 60 hotels and return to collective shelters, amid a significant decline in Corona injuries, Russia Today reported, citing the Daily Mail.
“It is time to move the homeless who have been in hotels for a temporary period to the shelters, where they can get the support they need,” de Blasio said at his daily press conference. Shelter to a better life.
He stressed that "New York is ready to return all homeless residents to shelters by the end of July," noting that "our plans are ready and we are preparing shelters that are preparing to receive the homeless," and said that the city only needs a permit from the state to do so.
The city began moving homeless residents to hotels at the height of the epidemic last spring, when it became difficult to enforce social distancing in shelters.
The city has spent $300 million on the hotel program since last April, when officials negotiated a contract with the New York City Hotel Association to find and provide rooms in hotels across the city for the homeless.
According to the New York Post, the initial contract was worth $78 million, but that included only a small portion of the rooms and hotels that the city needed. By October, records from the city's superintendent showed that the city had spent $299 million on the program.
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