NYC Mayor Adams’ administration welcomed legal ‘clarity’ on right to shelter law for migrants with an eye toward narrowing it

Frank Carone, the mayor's former chief the Daily News d he would have “welcomed” a legal challenge to the city’s handling of the right-to-shelter law in connection with the migrant crisis.

Carone said the consent decree has been extended far beyond what it was intended to do, and that the crisis could easi Frank Carone o persuade a judge to more narrowly define it give last year erity of the situation.

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