How about sheltering the citizens who lost everything due to Helene and
Milton?

Or housing homeless veterans?

NYC seeking 14,000 hotel rooms to shelter migrants through 2025 — as
housing costs set to surpass $2.3B.

<https://nypost.com/2024/10/09/us-news/nyc-seeking-14000-hotel-rooms-to-shelter-migrants-through-2025/>

'They need more room at the inn.

New York City’s use of hotels as emergency shelters to house migrants
will continue for the foreseeable future, The Post has learned, as the
Department of Homeless Services is seeking a contract with hotels to
provide a total of 14,000 rooms to shelter migrants at least through
next year.

The city projects that spending on housing for migrants over the past
two years and this fiscal year combined will surpass a staggering $2.3
billion — much of it on rent paid to hotels in the Big Apple.

Christian Jones standing outside the Roosevelt Hotel, which is a migrant
shelter located at 360 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, provided by the
city's Department of Homeless Services
3 The city’s Department of Homeless Services is seeking a contract with
hotels to provide 14,000 rooms for migrants through next year, The Post
has learned.
Robert Miller
About 150 hotels are currently sheltering migrants and total spending on
migrant services over three years will hit $5.76 billion.

“The taxpayers can’t pay for this indefinitely,” said Nicole Gelinas, a
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute think tank.

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With Mayor Eric Adams under criminal indictment and his administration
in disarray, Gelinas said Gov. Kathy Hochul “should take control” of
managing the migrant crisis in the city.

She said it’s totally unacceptable that so many hotels in Manhattan’s
Midtown and downtown tourists district have been converted to migrant
shelters instead of serving the tourism industry.

“We should stop using hotels as shelters by the end of the year,”
Gelinas said.

Migrants leaving the shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan on Aug.
27, 2024.
3 Migrants leaving the shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan on Aug.
27, 2024.
Kevin C. Downs for The New York Post
The city has three existing contracts with the New York City Hotel
Association to work with its extensive network of hotels to voluntarily
provide shelter space.

The total cost to house migrants per room per night is $352 per night,
according to city data .

There are financial benefits — particularly to hotels in the outer
boroughs that are not in tourist districts and have lower occupancy
rates. The city will fill all the rooms and pay a hefty sum to do so,
providing a reliable revenue stream.

“The New York City Department of Homeless Services is seeking to
continue the City Sanctuary Facility program by procuring a vendor who
can assist in acquiring the use of large scale commercial hotels and
hotel management services to help address the current emergency,” the
agency said in its new solicitation.

There are currently about 150 hotels being used to provide shelter to
migrants in New York City.
3 There are currently about 150 hotels being used to provide shelter to
migrants in New York City.
Robert Miller
The hotel association will apply to oversee the new shelter contract,
said its president and CEO, Vijay Dandapani.

“We will be filling in the RFP [request for proposal],” he said.

Dandapani said the hotel association’s foundation is paid approximately
$100,000 per month to administer three of its existing contracts with
the city.

“We have five full time employees specifically for fulfilling the
contractual obligations, besides work done by regular HANYC staff for
the contract, in addition to their normal duties,” he said.

The city Asylum Funding Tracker projects that migrant shelter costs will
drop from $1.51 billion last year to $233 million in the current fiscal
year ending June 30, 2025.

Adams has said that 30-day shelter limits for individuals and 60 days
for families has helped reduce the migrant population in the city’s
shelter system'

On 10/10/2024 13:12, John Smyth wrote:
> How about sheltering the citizens who lost everything due to Helene and
> Milton?
>
> Or housing homeless veterans?

What a great idea!

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Btw, John - please stop posting in ACW.

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:48:54 +0100, David Brooks <David@nomail.afraid.org>
wrote:

>On 10/10/2024 13:12, John Smyth wrote:
>> How about sheltering the citizens who lost everything due to Helene and
>> Milton?

What a stupid idea. It's highly unlikely all those folks in Florida, North
Carolina and Tennessee are eager to relocate their lives to New York City.

>> Or housing homeless veterans?
>
>What a great idea!

That *is* a good idea! But can the VA pay for it or would Republicans cut their
funding again?

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