{"id":31382,"date":"2024-01-10T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=31382"},"modified":"2024-01-10T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:05:28","slug":"placing-asylum-seekers-in-floyd-bennett-field-despite-the-known-significant-storm-risks-highlights-the-mismanagement-and-waste-of-money-nyc-comptroller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/31382","title":{"rendered":"Placing asylum seekers in Floyd Bennett Field, despite the known\u202fsignificant storm risks, highlights the mismanagement and waste of money: NYC Comptroller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York:\u00a0New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said in a statement that placing asylum seekers in Floyd Bennett Field, despite the known\u202fsignificant storm risks, highlights the mismanagement and waste of money that is all-too-present in City Hall\u2019s approach to shelter and services for asylum seekers. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The need for the City to find temporary shelter for the people already in temporary shelters demonstrates that the site was not adequately set up for extreme weather, on top of the hardship this isolated and inadequately serviced location, miles from the nearest neighborhood school, already imposes on its residents.<\/p>\n<p>In advance of tonight\u2019s storm, the New York City Office of Emergency Management is evacuating asylum seekers from Floyd Bennett Field. In the statement Brad Lander said\u00a0we are reassured that people will be moved out of harm\u2019s way, the City is re-shuffling families time and time again, as we expect more storms and severe weather throughout the winter. The emergency evacuation comes at a time when families now face even more uncertainty with the implementation of the 60-day shelter stay limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur office urges the Administration to provide clear, plain-language communication to families in their preferred languages about where they will be moved to and for how long, and to provide partners in government with clear information about what is being done to increase flood protection measures as well as the long-term plan for Floyd Bennett Field as an emergency shelter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPiedad, a 49-year-old mother facing eviction from the Row Hotel as a result of the 60-day rule, spoke for many migrant families this week when she told The City: \u2018We\u2019re hoping, with God\u2019s will, we\u2019ll get another shelter, and not the tents.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York:\u00a0New York City Comptroller Brad Lander said in a statement that placing asylum seekers in Floyd Bennett Field, despite the known\u202fsignificant storm risks, highlights the mismanagement and waste of money that is all-too-present in City Hall\u2019s approach to shelter and services for asylum seekers. The need for the City to find temporary shelter for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31383,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31382\/revisions\/31383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}