The Legal Aid Society is sounding the alarm over homeless New Yorkers who are being lost as the city begins to transfer individuals who had been living in hotel rooms to shelter facilities, as reported by AMNY.

“A shelter provider contacted The Legal Aid Society noting that when they started relocating people from hotels to shelters not everybody showed up at the shelters,” said Josh Goldfein a staff attorney with Legal Aid’s Homeless Rights Project.

“We asked the city — the Department of Homeless Services—can you give us numbers of how many people left the hotels vs how many people arrived at the shelter? The Department of Homeless Services said, ‘We are not going to track that number.’ They don’t want to know the answer to that question.”