QUESTION
How many emergency hotel shelters have been closed, and why?
1:49:46
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A handful of emergency hotel shelters have been closed due to issues such as owners terminating cooperation or physical violations.
- Commissioner Park states approximately half a dozen hotels have been closed.
- Closures are attributed to owners withdrawing cooperation or the discovery of physical violations at sites.
- Despite these closures, there's no reduction in the overall support network for asylum seekers.
- The Department of Social Services maintains a total of 162 asylum sites, most of which are hotels.
Adrienne E. Adams
1:49:46
How many emergency hotel shelters have been closed since the influx began.
Molly Wasow Park
1:49:55
I will need to circle back on an exact number.
1:49:57
I it is a handful of hotels that have been closed, you know, in the order of magnitude of a half dozen.
1:50:05
And the reasons we have closed them is because there was some issue with that particular site, right, that in some cases, the owner decided that they no longer wanted to work with us or we found that there were physical violations, other kinds of things that meant that we didn't think it was appropriate to continue using the site.
1:50:28
In those cases, we found other placements for clients.
1:50:32
So we are not downsizing our footprint at this time to serve asylum seekers because we have ongoing need.
1:50:39
Of our total asylum sites.
1:50:41
There are we have a 162 total, all but 7 are hotels.
