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NYC Mayor Caves To Pressure, Reverses Plan to Give Luxury Condos to Migrants

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams reversed a plan to house migrants at an abandoned luxury condominium complex in Harlem after significant community backlash.

The 35-story building had been slated quietly to become a homeless shelter, but residents discovered bed frames being moved in.

At a packed resident meeting, Adams said migrants and asylum seekers would not be housed there.

Instead, the site will provide transitional housing for New York families experiencing homelessness.

“I told the team, ‘Find out what’s going on here. We’re not moving folks into a brand new building when you have long-term needs in a community. That’s not gonna happen,’” Adams said. “You will not have migrants and asylum seekers in that property.”

“Despite the developer’s initial plans for market rate condominiums, development had been stalled and this building left indefinitely empty– it would not have advanced as luxury housing. Instead of sitting vacant, this site will serve as high-quality transitional housing for long-term New York City families with children experiencing homelessness,” a NYC Department of Social Services spokesperson said.

“We will be working with an experienced not-for-profit provider to help these families stabilize their lives and ultimately move into permanent housing. As we have always done, we will continue to maintain open lines of communication and work closely with the community every step of the way to ensure that we are collaboratively working to provide critical services for our neighbors in need.”

This came after residents angrily confronted Adams about the lack of community consultation and need for affordable housing.

“You are the mayor. We do not want to hear excuses,” one resident yelled at Adams.

“We have a dearth of affordable housing we’re being priced out of the community … The lack of respect is absolutely appalling,” resident Regina Smith said.

“These apartments could be used for us to go into,” Leslie Johnson said.

While originally planned as luxury units, the long-vacant building will now serve local families through a nonprofit provider and maintain communication with the community.

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