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In a conference on Tuesday, October 31, Adams confirmed there’s been quite a few migrants soliciting sex as work around the clock on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens and in the East New York neighborhood in Brooklyn in recent weeks. He said he has visited the sites firsthand. “We have also been laser clear that we cannot continue to manage this crisis on our own and have been calling on the federal government for months if not over a year to create a federal decompression strategy so that this national crisis is not sitting on the back of a municipality,” said Varlack.
Martinez said that instead of risking an increase in homelessness, the city should use the new CityFHEPS laws and also move people into vacant city apartments in supportive housing, New York City Housing Authority , Department of Housing Preservation and Development , and Housing Connect buildings.