Brian Lear on WNYC.

We announced on the show earlier this month

that this year's Larer Prize for Community Well Being

will be awarded to individuals or groups

who are helping the asylum seekers who have come to the city in the last two years.

The premise is that the media focuses a lot on the politics and economics of so many new arrivals coming so quickly and to some degree on their housing and

those are all real issues and need to be covered and we do talk about them here a lot

but much less so in the media as a whole on helping them with their daily needs like food

and clothing and education and health care so you can nominate a person or a

group who you think deserves public recognition for helping the

asylum seekers on a form we've set up for that purpose online. Go to WNYC.org

slash Larer Prize nominate. NYC now dealing with one such quality of life issue. The dilemma that asylum

seeker families are often moved several times by the city from temporary

housing to temporary housing, but it's still best for the children in those

families that they stay in the same school for a full school year.

They've already been experiencing so much instability.

At the end of September, the Adams administration announced that adult migrants in the city shelter system will be asked to leave their assigned shelter after 30 days,

although they may reapply if they can't find housing.

And that's what we've seen recently reported in the news.

Asylum seekers standing in line for hours in freezing temperatures,

waiting to reapply for housing at reticiting centers as they're called.

In October, the administration did announce a similar rule for families with children,

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