Residents, tourists and visitors to the 'Big Apple' suffer the consequences of the Citie's 'sanctuary city' policies. This is absolutely disgusting!

 

NYC inks another set of emergency hotel contracts to house migrants at $137M price tag

By Craig McCarthy Feb. 1, 2024 nypost.com

https://nypost.com/2024/02/01/metro/nyc-adds-another-set-of-migrant-hotels-for-crisis-for-137m/

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Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has signed another series of emergency hotel deals — with a total $137 million price tag — to house the thousands of migrants heading to NYC each week, The Post has learned.

Eight hotels in Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Manhattan will add more than 750 rooms for asylum-seeker families with kids, according to city records about the latest batch of contracts, inked over the last two weeks.

The largest deal went to Housing Options & Geriatric Association Resources, a Bronx-based company that specializes in helping the “elderly, seriously mentally ill adults, the homeless, adults living with Special Needs and the physically challenged,” according to its website.

It signed a $54 million contract to house migrants at a Queens Holiday Inn with nearly 400 units, the records show.

 The multi-million-dollar deals are the latest example of how the migrant crisis has been a boon for the Big Apple hotel industry, which was struggling to recover after the pandemic.

Just last week, City Hall inked another deal with the Hotel Association of New York City (HANYC) to provide “last resort” shelter to migrant families for more than $75 million.

That deal would allow the families to stay at one of 15 hotels for four weeks under a “vouchering program” set to end in July.

The Adams administration has used the hotel to house migrants with shelters and tent cities full. Getty Images More than 170,000 migrants have come to the Big Apple since the start of the crisis. AP

The Hotel Association is also involved in one of the recent deals to cover the rent for migrants at a Bronx hotel as part of a deal with the Practice of Peace Foundation for $14.4 million.

The records do not say what services the Practice of Peace Foundation would provide if the HANYC was covering the rent.

Calls to the Housing Options & Geriatric Association Resources, HANYC and Practice of Peace Foundation were not returned.

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Since the start of the crisis in spring 2022, more than 170,000 migrants have come through the city.

Currently, nearly 70,000 remain in the city’s care, which is expected to cost the Big Apple $10 billion through June 2025.