New York City spends an average of $387 each day on each migrant household in taxpayer-funded shelters, despite efforts by Eric Adams to cut spending.
The $387 is the ‘cumulative daily allowance’ – which is the average amount spent on a migrant household, including providing them with shelter and food, every day since the crisis began in spring 2022.
The February average was down $5 from reported spending in October 2023, when about 65,400 migrants were in shelters.
The number has been gradually declining each month since October and is expected to remain on a downward trajectory.
Based on average American household containing 2.5 people, there are 26,100 households in the Big Apple’s migrant havens.
This predicts that over $10.12 million per day is spent on migrants in the city.
New York City spends an average of $387 each day on each migrant household in taxpayer-funded shelters despite efforts by Eric Adams to cut spending
Efforts by New York Mayor Eric Adams (pictured) to cut the amount of government aid spent on migrants and reduce the number of asylum seekers in taxpayer-funded shelters
$387 is the ‘cumulative daily allowance’ – which is the average amount spent on a migrant household each day since the crisis began in spring 2022
February’s average was down $5 from reported spending in October 2023, when about 65,400 migrants were in shelters
However, the majority of people who come through the southern border and find their way to New York City are single — meaning the average household size among the migrant population may be less than 2.5.
There are efforts by NYC to cut the amount of government aid spent on migrants and reduce the number of asylum seekers in taxpayer-funded shelters.
Since October, the total immigrant population under city care has dropped by at least 600.
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has been working to combat the migrant crisis, which has been predicted to cost the city $10 billion over the next fiscal year.
“For the past two months, Mayor Adams has laid out plans to save billions in taxpayer dollars as New York City deals with a national humanitarian crisis, and the numbers show that our efforts are working,” a City Hall spokesman said. mail on Tuesday, adding that they ‘expect to save $2.3 billion by next summer.’
In January, a government report argued that what New Yorkers are seeing is not an ‘unprecedented increase in immigration.’
“While New York City is seeing an unprecedented number of asylum seekers dependent on the city’s shelter system, the United States and New York City have experienced periods of comparable or greater growth in our immigrant population in the past,” the report said.
It went on to claim that the immigrant population in the United States has increased only marginally since 2021.
According to the data, the growth of the immigrant population in 2022 is two million less than the US Census Bureau predicted.
The period from 2012 to 2022 saw slower growth in the immigrant share of the population than in the 2000s, 1990s, 1980s and 1970s, according to the data report.
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has been working to combat the migrant crisis, which has been predicted to cost the city $10 billion over the next fiscal year
Newly arrived migrants are pictured walking outside the Floyd Bennett Field shelter on February 21, 2024 in Brooklyn
Since October, the total immigrant population under city care has dropped by at least 600
The latest City Hall data comes just weeks after Mayor Eric Adams was accused of wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on no-bid contracts that pay for-profit companies ‘exorbitant prices’ to run emergency shelters for asylum-seeking migrants.
City Comptroller Brad Lander made the claim in a review of migrant-related contracts, which identified 340 asylum seeker contracts representing an estimated contract value of $5.7 billion.
Most of those contracts were procured on an emergency basis, allowing the city to waive the usual bidding requirements, according to the report.
“The asylum seeker contracts show that the dangers of this process run amok — wildly high staffing prices with little consistency across agencies, costing much more than traditional procurement or hiring city staff,” the report said.
A City Hall spokesman told DailyMail.com in a statement that the city is pursuing cost-cutting measures as emergency contracts expire, adding: ‘We will review the full report and address any issues that need to be corrected.’
‘New York City has led the nation in addressing this national humanitarian crisis, helping more than 60 percent of the nearly 180,000 migrants who have come through our care since spring 2022 move out of our shelter and take the next steps on their journey, the spokesman said.
“Our success stems in large part from our ability to adapt and respond to the changing needs of this crisis,” the statement added.
More than 170,000 migrants have arrived in the city since spring 2022, and the crisis is only deepening as they continue to be bussed in from Texas, where record numbers are entering.
In January, Adams announced the initial 20 percent cut that reduced the cost of the migrant crisis from $12.25 billion to $10.6 billion over the next three years
Adams faced backlash for announcing a $53 million debit card scheme that could give a migrant family with two children under 17 up to $15,200 a year
In January, Adams announced the initial 20 percent cut that reduced costs from the migrant crisis over the next three years.
‘If we were to do the third rounds, it will affect waste collection, it will affect our services for our older adults, it will affect libraries, you will affect a number of services that you will actually see the difference. We’re not going to have to do the third rounds, the third round of cuts to our agencies, Adams said.
“You’re not going to see some of the draconian steps that we’re going to have to take that will get in the way of the cleanliness and safety of our city.”
The Immediate Response Card initiative will see the city partner with New Jersey bank Mobility Capital Finance to provide pre-paid cards to new arrivals to allow them to buy food and baby supplies instead of the current shelter food services.
Under the scheme, a single migrant could get $345 a month, while a family of eight could get $2,203 a month, according to a new cost breakdown seen by The New York Post.
Likewise, a family of three could receive $932 a month, and a family of four could get $1,195 a month to spend on food at local grocery stores, supermarkets and bodegas.
A start date for the scheme has not been set, but the pilot will include 500 families at the Roosevelt Hotel and could eventually include up to 6,500 families, with officials saying it will save $600,000 a month and $7.2 million annually.