Mr. Gomez, here with his wife and infant son, still relies on meals provided by the city supplemented by occasional visits from nonprofits like Masbia Relief, an affiliate of a Brooklyn-based kosher soup kitchen and food bank, and Brooklyn Emerge, a halal-observant food pantry. That dependence, his joblessness and such indignities as a 9 p.m. curfew at the former Best Western enfeeble him, he suggested.

“I feel like I’m in prison,” he said.

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