Nearly half of the city’s available hotel rooms are currently occupied by asylum seekers and there are few rooms left to accommodate an expected surge in migrants following the expiration of Title 42 last week, Mayor Eric Adams claimed Wednesday.
Adams made the remarks in response to a reporter’s question about why his administration has moved towardand other congregate settings instead of hotels over the past week, following an unrelated press conference. The city has used hotels as emergency shelter sites for housing a portion of the 67,000 mostly Latin American migrants who’ve flooded into the city since last year.
Hotels make up many of the city’s 150 emergency shelters as well as its eight Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centers . In addition, the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan was just The mayor also said the city is also running low on hotels who are willing to accept asylum seekers, charging prices the city can afford or have the proper facilities to accommodate them.
“I wouldn’t say that hotels are no longer an option,” Williams-Isom said. “I would say that we don’t have many more hotels to go into.”
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