NYC inks $1B shelter contract with hotels to house 86K immigrants and homeless — despite claims migrant crisis is easing
By Carl Campanile
Published June 19, 2025
Updated June 20, 2025, 11:35 a.m. ET
NY POSTcast | Thursday, June 19th, 2025
The Adams administration has inked a nearly $1 billion contract with the hotel industry for emergency shelter space — despite boasting that the migrant crisis is tapering off, The Post has learned.
Taxpayers are on the hook for the $929.1 million reupped with the Hotel Association of New York City Foundation as the total city population still includes a whopping 86,000 people, including homeless individuals and asylum seekers.
“These hotel units will be used by social services vendors to house emergency shelter clients who have entered the [Department of Homeless Services] shelter system,” the agency said in a notice posted Wednesday.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/19/us-news/nyc-inks-1-billion-shelter-contract-with-hotels-despite-end-of-migrant-crisis/
