Homeless and child advocates say the long-distance moves for migrants compelled to remain in the shelter system have unnecessarily uprooted families, disrupted children’s schooling, and made it harder for parents to hold down jobs to support themselves and exit the shelter system. The city is housing about 65,000 migrants in over 200 city shelters.

“Moving families around is just horribly destabilizing for kids’ education,” said Jennifer Pringle, director of the Learners in Temporary Housing project at the nonprofit Advocates for Children of New York, adding: “I can’t underemphasize the pervasiveness of fear about impending instability throughout the system.” A 30-day stay limit applies to adult migrants without children.

Source: More NYC migrant families relocated to shelters in other boroughs, new data shows – Gothamist