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Migrant families receive $4000 in grants to aid transition out of NYC shelters
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The NYC Department of Homeless Services offered 150 families $4000 to help them move out of shelters into permanent housing.
"The city is using every tool at its disposal to implement innovative and cost-effective solutions to help recently-arrived asylum seekers residing in shelters take the next steps in their journey," a Department of Social Services (DSS) spokesperson told Fox News Digital. Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
DHS officials in December started dispensing $4000 to 150 households who live in the city’s emergency DHS shelters. Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
"Since December, DSS has been working with a few not-for-profit providers operating emergency sites to pilot a new effort to reduce barriers to obtaining housing by helping asylum-seeking families who have identified permanent housing with the upfront cost of moving into their new home," the DSS spokesperson said. Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.