They want extra room on the inn.
New York Metropolis’s use of inns as emergency shelters to accommodate migrants will proceed for the foreseeable future, The Submit has realized, because the Division of Homeless Providers is searching for a contract with inns to supply a complete of 14,000 rooms to shelter migrants not less than by way of subsequent yr.
Town tasks that spending on housing for migrants over the previous two years and this fiscal yr mixed will surpass a staggering $2.3 billion — a lot of it on lease paid to inns within the Massive Apple.
About 150 inns are presently sheltering migrants and complete spending on migrant providers over three years will hit $5.76 billion.
“The taxpayers can’t pay for this indefinitely,” stated Nicole Gelinas, a senior fellow on the Manhattan Institute suppose tank.
With Mayor Eric Adams beneath prison indictment and his administration in disarray, Gelinas stated Gov. Kathy Hochul “ought to take management” of managing the migrant disaster within the metropolis.
She stated it’s completely unacceptable that so many inns in Manhattan’s Midtown and downtown vacationers district have been transformed to migrant shelters as an alternative of serving the tourism trade.
“We must always cease utilizing inns as shelters by the top of the yr,” Gelinas stated.
Town has three current contracts with the New York Metropolis Resort Affiliation to work with its intensive community of inns to voluntarily present shelter house.
The entire value to accommodate migrants per room per evening is $352 per evening, in accordance with metropolis information .
There are monetary advantages — notably to inns within the outer boroughs that aren’t in vacationer districts and have decrease occupancy charges. Town will fill all of the rooms and pay a hefty sum to take action, offering a dependable income stream.
“The New York Metropolis Division of Homeless Providers is searching for to proceed the Metropolis Sanctuary Facility program by procuring a vendor who can help in buying the usage of giant scale business inns and resort administration providers to assist tackle the present emergency,” the company stated in its new solicitation.
The resort affiliation will apply to supervise the brand new shelter contract, stated its president and CEO, Vijay Dandapani.
“We will likely be filling within the RFP [request for proposal],” he stated.
Dandapani stated the resort affiliation’s basis is paid roughly $100,000 per thirty days to manage three of its current contracts with the town.
“We’ve 5 full time staff particularly for fulfilling the contractual obligations, apart from work carried out by common HANYC employees for the contract, along with their regular duties,” he stated.
Town Asylum Funding Tracker tasks that migrant shelter prices will drop from $1.51 billion final yr to $233 million within the present fiscal yr ending June 30, 2025.
Adams has stated that 30-day shelter limits for people and 60 days for households has helped scale back the migrant inhabitants within the metropolis’s shelter system.
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