Mayor Adams wants to reassess New York’s right to shelter. Can he?
The decades-old shelter policy would have to go back to court to be undone, experts say.
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For decades, New York has had a right to shelter, meaning that anyone who does not have a roof over their head can get one through the city-run homeless shelter system.
That right has been tested in recent weeks by a new challenge: an influx of thousands of Central and South American asylum-seekers who have arrived in the city with no places to live, no jobs, and hardly any possessions.