City officials are urgently seeking another 5,000 rooms in Big Apple hotels to house migrants bound for New York City from the southern border, The Post has learned.
There is no price tag attached to the request that was released Wednesday, which was made under the emergency contracting powers invoked by Mayor Eric Adams when the migrant crisis first began in the city.
It marks a dramatic expansion of the city’s efforts to secure temporary housing for the recent arrivals, sources say.
The Department of Homeless Services had previously asked nonprofit social service providers to send in proposals to rent rooms and provide aid for 600 families set to be housed in a luxury Midtown hotel, the Row NYC on 8th Avenue.
The new request for providers to secure thousands of rooms in hotels across the city is in addition to that, city officials confirmed.
And it would come on top of the estimated 200 already secured and providing housing for families at the Skyline Hotel on 10th Avenue.
If fully implemented, it would bring the number of hotel rooms rented for migrants in the city shelter system up to nearly 6,000.
City Hall estimates that more than 4,000 migrants, many of whom are seeking asylum, have arrived in the five boroughs in recent weeks — and have become the subject of a high-profile feud between Hizzoner and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
Adams accused Abbott and the Arizona governor of shipping the migrants to New York without telling local officials, claims that both denied at the time.
However, Abbott said he was shipping migrants to the East Coast cities in protest of President Biden’s “willful ignorance” regarding the border crisis.
City Hall was not immediately able to comment.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/17/nyc-officials-seek-extra-5k-hotel-rooms-to-house-migrants/
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