New York City's comptroller says the city's approach to the migrant crisis is financially unsustainable and officials should prioritize securing long-term housing. The city is on track to spend more than $4 billion in the current fiscal year and the next.
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The report found that the city has ramped up its shelter system by 75% to meet its legal obligation to provide housing to homeless residents. Most new migrants housed by the city stay in shelters run by the Department of Homeless Services, where, even prior to the current crisis, the average length of stay was longer than 500 days.
“Both individually and collectively, folks have been so focused on meeting those emergency needs that it has been hard to see further downstream,” he later added. “Right now, we’re finding the money to contract for that next hotel every time we need more. But we’re not finding the money for the slightly longer-term services that help people get out of shelter,” Lander said. “And that’s pennywise and pound foolish because over the longer term, we’ll wind up spending a lot more.”
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