City officials say they are urgently looking for an additional 5,000 rooms in Big Apple hotels to accommodate migrants heading to New York City from the southern border. , The Post found out.
The request announced Wednesday has no price tag. The request was made under an Emergency Contract Authority invoked by Mayor Eric Adams when the immigration crisis first began in the city.
This marks a dramatic expansion in the city's efforts to secure temporary housing for recently arrived people, sources say.
Homeless Services Authority previously Midtown luxury hotel Row NYC on Eighth Avenue to submit proposals to provide assistance with renting rooms to 600 families moving into NYC.
A new demand for providers to secure thousands of rooms in the city's hotels, city officials confirmed, in addition.
And that will come on top of the estimated 200 units already secured and housing families at the Skyline Hotel on 10th Avenue.
When fully implemented, the number of hotel rooms available for rent to immigrants in the city's shelter system could reach nearly 6,000.
City officials estimate that over 4,000 migrants, many of whom are seeking asylum, have arrived in her five governorates in recent weeks. Governor Greg Abbott.
Adams accused Abbott and the governor of Arizona of sending immigrants to New York without telling local authorities, a charge both denied at the time.
But Abbott said he was sending migrants to cities on the East Coastin protest against President Biden's "willful ignorance" about the border crisis.
City Hall was not immediately available for comment.
Additional report by Bernadette Hogan
