Among the candidates in the 9th District City Council race in Harlem, Inez Dickens has emerged as the most vocal about the city's migrant crisis.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Assemblymember Inez Dickens told voters at a recent candidate forum that a problem was emerging at a nearby homeless shelter.
Other candidates have been more tepid on the influx of migrants, reaffirming the city’s historical role as a sanctuary for persecuted minorities while advocating for resources for homeless people. But neither Yusef Salaam nor Assemblymember Al Taylor, who have cross-endorsed each other for the ranked-choice primary, have articulated specific positions or proposals.
Though Taylor and Salaam have also criticized the concentration of drug-related facilities in Harlem, Dickens says housing migrants in need is part of a long history of piling onto already overburdened areas. Dickens has focused her opposition to one of the newest migrant relief centers in the city: Harlem’s Lincoln Correctional Center, a former jail near the northern stretch of Central Park that currently houses single adult men. She planned a protest rally earlier this month, but it was ultimately canceled.
As of June 30, 2022, just under 2,000 people living in Department of Homeless Services-run shelters at the time said they lived within the two community districts that correspond with Central and East Harlem, city data shows. The East Harlem district also includes Randall's and Wards Islands, which are home to a high concentration of DHS shelters.showed that roughly 2,900 people were staying in shelters located within the two districts.
The gap is most pronounced by the type of facility: There were about 1,700 people in adult-only shelters in the Harlem community districts by the end of last April compared to 134 people in adult shelters on the eastern and western sides of Central Park. The Upper East and Upper West Side neighborhoods sheltered roughly 1,400 people belonging to families with children in commercial hotels, whereas the total for that facility type in Harlem was zero.
"I want to advocate for all those that are in New York City that need the same services, and that they don’t get left by the wayside,” he said. “We've got to be careful when we throw and banter around monikers and use … words as detrimental to the health and mindset of people today,” she said from the Assembly floor in 2019 in support of the state's DREAM Act. “Because really there is no difference between those who came over at the turn of the last century and those that are coming over today.”
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