And could double by 2025…by May 31, the city had spent about $4.88 billion on the migrant crisis, with $1.98 billion allocated specifically to migrant housing, including hotels, motels, and tent cities at Randall’s Island and Floyd Bennett Field………CoStar reported in November 2023 that up to 16,000 hotel rooms have been taken off the market for migrants, impacting the hotel industry negatively.

“Our taxes are being used to pay for the migrants, and where are we supposed to make revenue? How as a business could we function?Hotels are “not for sheltering the masses of people pouring over our borders every day,” but rather for tourism. “These locations were meant to boost the economy of this city, but instead they’ve become a net drain and are costing us enormously,”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyc-migrant-crisis-cost-staggering-5-billion-just-shelters-security-and-food

 

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