New York City considering using cruise ships as temporary housing for migrantsNew York City considering using cruise ships as temporary housing for migrantsNew York City considering using cruise ships as temporary housing for migrantsNEW YORK -- Mayor Eric Adams is facing pushback for some plans the city is considering to house newly arrived migrants. They come to America in search of stability, but many instead find themselves shuffled from city to city. To house the unprecedented surge of more than 11,000 migrants the last few months, on CBS2's weekly political show The Point, the mayor told reporter Marica Kramer he is considering using cruise ships as temporary housing. READ MORE: New York City opens resource center for asylum seekersAside from practical concerns, Simone says the optics of sheltering migrants out of sight is a negative one. Back in 2002, the Bloomberg administration floated a similar idea to use cruise ships no longer in service as accommodations for the city's more than 37,000 homeless people.

Source: CNN September 20, 2022 01:08 UTC