The Nationwide Guard is deploying members to NYC's homeless shelters to help the overcrowded facilties.
J. Messerschmidt/NY Publish
Nationwide Guard members are being deployed to New York Metropolis’s homeless shelters to assist help the overwhelmed services which can be additionally housing migrants.
The reservists will assist with routine operations on the shelters, together with meals distribution, capability administration and supplementing the stretched-thin workers, a metropolis Division of Social Providers official advised The Publish.
Their obligations “don't embrace staffing assist for safety, social providers or case administration providers,” the spokesperson stated.
It wasn’t instantly clear what number of troops have been deployed or what number of shelters they are going to assist.
Sources advised The Publish that Nationwide Guard members shall be skilled in some capability on homelessness providers.
The town shelter deployment got here after Gov. Kathy Hochul mobilized 100 Nationwide Guard troops for deployment earlier this month to “present logistical and operational assist” to town’s controversial migrant tent metropolis on Randall’s Island.
The Randall’s Island reduction middle has a capability for roughly 500 migrants however has been largely vacant even whereas almost 16,000 others have packed town’s overloaded shelter system.
The town Division of Homeless Providers’ hit a brand new occupancy file this month, with 62,174 individuals residing in shelters as asylum-seeking migrants proceed to reach from the southern border.
The surge in migrants to the Massive Apple compelled Mayor Adams to declare a state of emergency and predicted it will value $1 billion to deal with and supply social providers for the almost 20,000 new arrivals.
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