Randall’s Island migrant shelter to cost NY taxpayers $20M a month — or $10K for every migrant: sourceBy Bernadette Hogan and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
August 13, 2023
New York taxpayers will dole out $20 million a month to house migrants on Randall’s Island, according to a state source — or $10,000 per asylum-seeker if the site fills all of its 2,000 beds.
The makeshift facility off Manhattan is one of four migrant housing sites fully funded by the state as part of a desperate effort to keep up with the flood of migrants who have New York City at its breaking point.
A well-placed source with the state told The Post over the weekend that the state is providing $20 million a month to run the Randall’s center.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that the migrant crunch in the Big Apple is expected to cost an overall whopping $12 billion for the next three years.
“We are past our breaking point,” Adams said during a City Hall briefing Wednesday. “With more than 57,300 individuals currently in our care on an average night, it amounts to $9.8 million a day, almost $300 million a month and nearly $3.6 billion a year.”
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https://nypost.com/2023/08/13/randalls-island-migrant-shelter-to-cost-ny-taxpayers-20m-a-month-or-10g-for-every-migrant-source/
