Mayor Zohran Mamdani has signed an emergency executive order that would require the city to create a plan within 45 days to close or renovate the city’s emergency migrant shelters, City Hall announced.
The Department of Social Services and Department of Homeless Services, in conjunction with the Law Department, must create a plan by Feb. 19 for the city’s emergency shelters to come into compliance with the city’s laws governing maximum capacity requirements and cooking facilities in shelters for families, according to the order.
Those rules were previously suspended under a series of emergency executive orders signed by former Mayor Eric Adams — the first of which was signed in October 2022 — to manage an influx of tens of thousands of migrants into the city’s shelter system…