New York City Mayor Eric Adams has come up with a plan to house migrants in private residences in order to combat the influx of people pouring in from the southern border and Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York completely decimated the idea.
“It’s absolutely outrageous. Not only does New York City have a housing crisis, we have an affordability crisis,” Malliotakis said during Fox Business interview. “People are renting apartments in New York City for thousands and thousands of dollars. People are having difficulty paying their mortgage, paying their rent, keeping up with their property taxes that have increased year after year, and the mayor is now telling hard-working taxpayers that they need to pay so an individual who crossed into our country illegally at the border last week can live rent-free? I mean, what planet are we living on?”
During a recent press conference, Mayor Adams also declared that many houses of worship would open its doors in July to help house migrants as well as suggesting putting migrants into “spare rooms” in people’s private residences in order to house the 72,000 migrants that have arrived in NYC under President Biden’s open border policy. Many suburban counties surrounding NYC have rightly pushed back on the ideas put forward by Mayor Adams and NY Governor Kathy Hochul because its simply ludicrous.
“The mayor, I’ve said it before, needs to challenge — and he is, by the way, finally, after I’ve been calling for him for a year to challenge this right-to-shelter law, it’s finally going to go before a judge because this was intended for homeless New Yorkers, right, citizens who fell on difficult times, became homeless, to give them a shelter, not for individuals who just entered our country last week or citizens of other countries,” Malliotakis explained during the interview.
According to a Bloomberg report, NYC is under a consent decree to house homeless individuals seeking shelter by law from a 1981 settlement agreement.
Malliotakis rightly asserted “This is going to continue to just incentivize individuals to come over our border. That’s exactly what’s going to happen. He says they keep coming. They keep coming because you are giving them free housing.”