It’s almost the end for the city’s migrant shelter system.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani instructed the Department of Homeless Services on Monday to come up with a plan by mid-February to phase out what remains of the network, long maligned by critics as a “shadow shelter system” where longstanding minimum standards for other city shelters don’t apply.
While the emergency executive order from Mamdani temporarily extends former Mayor Eric Adams’ order first signed in October 2022, it also calls on DHS to come up with a plan to bring the remaining migrant shelters into compliance with rules that apply to all other city shelters. Those rules bar shelters from having more than more than 200 beds in a single location and require each family unit to have a kitchen, among other regulations…