Migrant Arrivals In NYC Have Drastically Slowed — But Shelter Population Remains Steady at Around 65K; Housing More Than 65K Migrants In NYC Shelters Is Unsustainable Adams Admin Official Admits — But Offers No Solutions; Thousands of Migrants Still Living at NYC’s Historic Roosevelt Hotel
Migrant arrivals in NYC have drastically slowed — but shelter population remains steady at around 65K:
The influx of migrants coming to the Big Apple has drastically slowed since the beginning of the year — but the number of those in city shelters has remained the same, even with the mayor’s time limits on stays.
Between 1,100-1,500 migrants have been arriving in the city each week since March, according to figures from the Adams administration.
It followed peaks of about 4,000 weekly migrant arrivals in January — when the shelter population hit a high of about 69,500.
As of last Tuesday, there were about 65,300 migrants housed in the taxpayer-funder shelters — a tally that plateaued in March, when the range of weekly arrivals was 1,100-1,200, down from 1,300-1,500 in February, according to the figures.
About 1,100 migrants came to the city in the week ending June 16, the most recent number City Hall would provide.
Mayor Eric Adams has touted his administration’s limit on stays — 60 days for families and 30 days for single people — as a way to help alleviate the burden on the city’s shelter system and help migrants to move on. The policy went into effect last fall.
And as of mid-May, single migrants who’ve hit the 30-day limit and want to re-apply for housing must prove they have “extenuating circumstances” to warrant another shelter stay. —>READ MORE HERE
Housing more than 65K migrants in NYC shelters is unsustainable Adams admin official admits — but offers no solutions:
Continuing to house tens of thousands of migrants in city shelters — with no end in sight — is “not sustainable,” an official in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration said Tuesday.
“The 64,000 cannot be our baseline,” Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom told a reporter during a City Hall briefing. “That’s not where we want to be.”
The admission came after The Post on Monday reported that the number of migrants in city-funded shelters has remained stagnant at roughly 65,000 for the last few months.
As of last Tuesday, there were about 65,300 migrants housed in the shelters, a number that plateaued in March, according to figures from City Hall.
It followed two months of steady declines in the shelter population that coincided with a major dip in the number of migrants arriving in the Big Apple each week.
The migrant shelter population hit a high of about 69,500 in January, when about 4,000 migrants were coming to the city a week. Around 1,100 have been arriving weekly more recently. —>READ MORE HERE
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