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Mayor Adams renews call to amend outdated ‘right to shelter’ rules as migrant crisis rages

Mayor Eric Adams renewed his call to dismantle a decades-old requirement to provide housing to anyone who requests it amid an ongoing crush of migrants pouring into the Big Apple. As Southern states flooded the city with unwanted migrants over the past six months, the Adams administration has taken their argument to court to get relief from the so-called “right to shelter” — a legal requirement stemming from a series of rulings dating back to the 1980s.

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