NYC could spend $300M annually to house migrants in hotels

[Kamaji]

NYC could spend $300M annually to house migrants in hotels: analysis

By Nolan Hicks
August 22, 2022

The Big Apple could be on the hook for more than $300 million per year to provide shelter space in hotels for newly arrived migrants, a Post analysis shows.

City officials have either rented or announced plans to secure roughly 5,800 hotel rooms over the last month in response to the influx from the southern border, which quickly overwhelmed the already-strained homeless shelter system.

One of the largest operations is planned for the ROW NYC hotel on 8th Avenue in Midtown, where officials are looking to rent as many as 600 rooms and provide intake and other services for the recent arrivals.

Officials said Monday they were evaluating four proposals to run the site.

Records show the ROW was previously used by city officials to provide shelter as part of a $139 million contract the Department of Homeless Services inked in January 2021, in which City Hall shelled out an average of $147.67 per day in rent.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/22/nyc-could-spend-300m-annually-to-house-migrants-in-hotels-analysis/

[Kamaji]

Well, y'all did vote for open-borders Biden, so what else do you expect?

[PeteS in CA]

Welcome to the money-where-your-mouth-is consequences of virtue-signaling as a "sanctuary city".

[Kamaji]

Welcome to the money-where-your-mouth-is consequences of virtue-signaling as a "sanctuary city".

[cato potatoe]

This is what happens when you have 8 million suckers willing to cough up $102 billion in taxes, and a federal bailout in your back pocket.

[Fishrrman]

The city will appeal to Albany, and the state legislature will pass a new "hotel surtax" imposed upon paying customers to raise revenue to pay for this scheme...

[libertybele]

The city will appeal to Albany, and the state legislature will pass a new "hotel surtax" imposed upon paying customers to raise revenue to pay for this scheme...

Perhaps, but with all the ILLEGALS who in their right mind is going to want to visit?? They'll pass the cost onto the taxpayers (of what's left of them).

With so many people exiting the state, the leftist idiots will eventually realize that this cost is not sustainable; nor is the cost of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION to our country.

[mountaineer]

It's not like there's anything else on which NYC might spend money.

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