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The 1981 agreement on homeless should be reopened by the courts to deal with the current flood of migrants
On Aug. 26, 1981, two years after a lawsuit was filed against the state and the city for failing to take care of the homeless on the streets, an agreement was struck under the auspices of the court, called a consent decree. That document, in the case of Callahan vs. Carey, and the similar cases that followed, dictates how New York must house people, with details about square footage and beds and the numbers of showers and sinks and toilets and lighting and so on and so forth.
Source: nydailynews.com
