With the migrants and asylum seeker crisis, that's an additional 220,000 that overwhelmed the city. And the right to shelter law, we went to court and fought for this. The right to shelter law never was intended for humanitarian crises of housing everyone across the globe. As the law was in place before, we challenged the right to shelter. It stated you could come from anywhere on the globe, come to New York and stay on taxpayers dime for as long as you want. (07:03–07:12)
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