NYC’s price tag for migrant crisis now at $500 million — and could reach $4 billion

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NYC’s price tag for migrant crisis now at $500 million — and could reach $4 billion

Adams recently revealed the the total financial hit amounts to $4.2 billion over the next two years — and is expected to grow even larger.

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NYC’s price tag for migrant crisis now at $500 million — and could reach $4 billion​

By
Bernadette Hogan


February 10, 2023 9:12pm
Updated

Migrant families arriving at the Stewart Hotel in Manhattan, NY on Jan. 6, 2023. J. Messerschmidt/NY Post






The Big Apple spent half a billion dollars on the migrant crisis since July — nearly a quarter of its total estimated cost, The Post has learned.
The city’s Office of Management and Budget said it has already spent $500 million “in costs associated with asylum seekers” between July 1, 2022 and Jan. 31, 2023, according to an estimate provided by City Hall on Friday.
That’s also half the $1 billion Mayor Eric Adams requested from President Joe Biden last year, thanks to an influx of over 44,000 asylum seekers that have flooded into the Big Apple since the spring.
But Adams recently revealed the total financial hit amounts to $4.2 billion over the next two years — and is expected to grow even larger.
Around 28,800 migrants are living in 86 taxpayer-funded emergency hotels and shelters as well as six “Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers,” including one at the cruise ship terminal in Brooklyn’s Red Hook.

People enter the migrant relief center at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on Feb. 2.Getty Images
So far, the Federal Emergency Management Agency dolled out $7.89 million to the city in December.





The federal government also granted an additional $1 million to the city’s Department of Homeless Services, according to City Hall.