New York City is finding creative ways to free up space in its overloaded shelter system as it copes with waves of up to 10,000 migrants per week, as well as a homeless and housing crisis.
After getting rebuffed by upstate communities on increasingly urgent requests from NYC for help in housing the influx of asylum-seeking migrants, the city now is assisting its homeless and lowest-income residents to move upstate.
This week, NYC announced an expansion of CityFHEPS housing-assistance vouchers that will for the first time enable the vouchers to be used outside of the five boroughs—in towns where rents are cheaper than metro NYC and more living spaces are available, the NY Post reported.
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