1 out of every 5 hotels in NYC is now a migrant shelter. Total spending per migrant is up to $12,000 per month.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/nyregion/hotels-prices-migrants-nyc.html

by C3PO-Leader

6 comments

  1. >The average hotel room rate in the city is $301 a night, a record. A major reason: One of every five hotels is now a shelter, contributing to a shortage of tourist lodging.

    That’s crazy!

    Unless something changes soon, Trump will do very well in NYC this November.

  3. >About 135 of the city’s roughly 680 hotels entered the shelter program, with many congregated in Midtown Manhattan, Long Island City in Queens and near Kennedy International Airport — all traditional magnets for tourists.

    Does this stimulus have a shelf life since it’s driving up lodging in prime locations for actual tourism? Obviously the hotel industry is loving the windfall.

    Beyond lodging, I’m curious what the migrants are receiving for food etc. The would-be tourists would be dining out, shopping etc. The fact these industries haven’t been a squeaky wheel suggests they’re feeling the stimulus as well.

  4. Shit like this is why the far-right got power in Europe and why Trump was elected.

    Governor Abbott making blue states take the hit on migrants with their braindead free housing/food/medicine/schooling/etc. policies was genius.

  5. I mean a simple solution is to have job programs for these guys. They keep saying construction and trucking needs people, train them up.

  6. So these folks cost more in a month than the average New Yorker takes home in a month.

    Trump won’t win NY. But he is going to do way better than anyone expects because of this. And all the Dems have to do to mitigate this is at least give the illusion that they are angry about this too.

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