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.
Report by Gwynne Hogan
This story originally appeared in THE CITY on Jan 6 4:47pm EST…