‘Solitude’: Residents struggling to connect at Queens shelter where woman committed suicide

The city shelter where a Colombian asylum seeker committed suicide over the weekend has been inconsistent in providing essential resources for the Spanish-speaking migrants being placed there, according to interviews with several residents at the family facility in Hollis, Queens.

Several Spanish-speaking homeless families at the Queens shelter said they were placed there after arriving at the PATH DHS Assessment Shelter in the Bronx. Since arriving at the Hollis site, they’ve relied on a telephone translation service and translation apps to communicate with staff and social workers, according to interviews with three recent migrant residents who live in the facility.

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