NYC seeks 14,000 hotel rooms for migrants through 2025 - with each one costing $352 PER NIGHT

Beleaguered New York Mayor Eric Adams has been told to get a grip arsenic the measure for housing the city's migrants soars towards $2.3 billion.

City Hall is informing that 14,000 edifice rooms volition beryllium needed until astatine slightest the extremity of adjacent twelvemonth erstwhile the full outgo of providing for the caller arrivals volition scope a staggering $5.76 billion.

More than 200,000 migrants person arrived successful the metropolis since the commencement of 2022, galore bussed northbound by GOP governors determined to marque Democrat cities stock the load of the situation connected the confederate border.

And much than 150 hotels are inactive being utilized to location the influx astatine an mean outgo of $352 a country each night.

'The taxpayers can't wage for this indefinitely,' Nicole Gelinas of the Manhattan Institute deliberation vessel told the NY Post. 'We should halt utilizing hotels arsenic shelters by the extremity of the year.'

The figures emerged arsenic the City began looking for a contractor to guarantee it secured the thousands of rooms needed going forward.

'The New York City Department of Homeless Services is seeking to proceed the City Sanctuary Facility programme by procuring a vendor who tin assistance successful acquiring the usage of ample standard commercialized hotels and edifice absorption services to assistance code the existent emergency,' the bureau announced.

It came aft City Comptroller Brad Lander revealed that 1 contractor, DocGo Inc, had billed the metropolis $1.7 cardinal for 9,874 vacant edifice rooms it had claimed were lodging migrants during May and June past year.

The New York City Hotel Association is presently paid $100,000 a period to negociate 3 migrant lodging contracts and said it would use for the caller one.

'We person 5 afloat clip employees specifically for fulfilling the contractual obligations, too enactment done by regular HANYC unit for the contract, successful summation to their mean duties,' said CEO, Vijay Dandapani.

'We volition beryllium filling successful the request.'

Some of the city's astir iconic hotels person been turned implicit to migrants since the commencement of the crisis, 22 of them successful Midtown Manhattan.

The four-star Row NYC Hotel successful Times Square and the Roosevelt adjacent Grand Central are among those that person been requisitioned arsenic the unit connected abstraction drove the mean terms per nighttime paid by tourists implicit $300 for the archetypal time.

And edifice bosses person warned that they volition conflict to instrumentality rooms presently lodging migrants successful a acceptable authorities for the millions of tourists who support the system afloat.

'They're going to request renovations,' said Dandapani said earlier this year.

'It's large quality for operation people, but it's not specified large quality if you're a existent edifice owner.'

Tent cities sprung up successful Floyd Bennett Field, Creedmoor Psychiatric Center and connected the grounds of Kennedy Airport astatine the highest of the situation with 214 exigency structure sites successful the city.

The Democrat Mayor abandoned the city's decades-old Right to Shelter instrumentality past twelvemonth and chopped structure enactment limits to 30 days for individuals and to 60 days for those with children, successful a bid to reduce the strain connected the metropolis finances.

But known crossings by undocumented migrants astatine the confederate borderline person dropped from a highest of 250,000 successful December to 58,000 successful August, and city authorities said the fig being sheltered has present fallen for 14 weeks successful a row.

On Wednesday it said it had begun dismantling the notorious Randall's Island structure which was erstwhile the city's biggest with 3,000 beds and wherever 1 migrant was stabbed to decease successful a combat successful January.

'The quality to adjacent the Randall's Island humanitarian alleviation halfway marks the latest milestone we person reached arsenic an medication addressing this humanitarian crisis,' said the Mayor's asylum seeker main Molly Schaeffer.

The Mayor said that the structure volition adjacent by the extremity of February and the tract volition instrumentality to its erstwhile incarnation arsenic a nationalist park.

'We're not scrambling each time to unfastened caller shelters, we're talking astir closing them,' helium added. 'We're not talking astir however overmuch we're spending, we're talking astir however overmuch we've saved.'