NYC seeking extra 5,000 hotel rooms to house migrants bused to city

[Kamaji]

NYC seeking extra 5,000 hotel rooms to house migrants bused to city

By Nolan Hicks and Carl Campanile
August 17, 2022

City officials are urgently seeking another 5,000 rooms in Big Apple hotels to house migrants bound for New York City from the southern border, The Post has learned.

There is no price tag attached to the request that was released Wednesday, which was made under the emergency contracting powers invoked by Mayor Eric Adams when the migrant crisis first began in the city.

It marks a dramatic expansion of the city’s efforts to secure temporary housing for the recent arrivals, sources say.

The Department of Homeless Services had previously asked nonprofit social service providers to send in proposals to rent rooms and provide aid for 600 families set to be housed in a luxury Midtown hotel, the Row NYC on 8th Avenue.

The new request for providers to secure thousands of rooms in hotels across the city is in addition to that, city officials confirmed.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/17/nyc-officials-seek-extra-5k-hotel-rooms-to-house-migrants/

[Kamaji]

I wonder when the advocates for NYC's historical homeless are going to start squawking about the favoritism being shown to these illegals.

[PeteS in CA]

So NYC is struggling to pay for the floods of illegals towns in TX have dealt with since LIEden took office? Would that this encounter with reality caused all those Dem pols to think a little.

[Free Vulcan]

TX and AZ need to send them double that number.

[Kamaji]

So NYC is struggling to pay for the floods of illegals towns in TX have dealt with since LIEden took office? Would that this encounter with reality caused all those Dem pols to think a little.

[Fishrrman]

"You're gonna need a bigger hotel..."