NYC officials attribute shelter evictions to migrant crisis: ‘We need your bed’

We need your bed – for someone else!

That’s the shocking message New York officials delivered when they testified before the city council on Thursday about why they are kicking out single adult migrants being housed in city shelters after 60 days.

So far, the city has issued about 1,500 eviction notices to single adult migrants, with eviction notices starting July 24 at shelters run by the city’s health and hospital system.

If they cannot find alternative accommodation, they can apply again.

“We should not underestimate the skills, resourcefulness and agency of the people in our care,” said Zach Iscol, commissioner of the Office of Emergency Management.

“And I think a lot of them, if they have 60 days, will find another place. You will be able to get out on your own.”

But Iscol warned that the new revolving door for the shelter system could quickly become overwhelmed if the influx of migrants from the southern border doesn’t slow down.

More than 103,000 people — about half of the migrants — live in either municipal or city-funded shelters or other emergency shelters set up as shelters.

Desperate for space, officials want to open tent cities in the parking lot of the sprawling Creedmore psychiatric facility in Queens and on soccer fields on Randall’s Island.

Creedmore opens next week, with Randall’s Island scheduled to open the following week, said Ted Long, a senior official with the city’s public hospital system, which will oversee the sites.

Progressive and homeless activists have accused the government of continuing these policies amid the larger housing crisis in the Big Apple, where available housing is so scarce that even those who can afford market rents are spending months looking for housing.

“The administration has not presented another concrete plan for the accommodation of people who have reached the 60-day limit,” said prosecutor Jumaane Williams.

“While the government claims the aim is not to force people onto the streets, we are already seeing this happening,” he added.

“Migrants sleep on sidewalks and parks and on bridges and highways.”

More than 54,800 asylum-seekers are currently residing in one of the city’s 188 shelters set up to accommodate the influx of migrants.

“We cannot continue to accommodate tens of thousands of new arrivals,” Adams said last month, adding that the new border is one of the “difficult decisions” the city must make to accommodate the incessant influx.