The Blubber

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A new report by Bloomberg reveals the amount that New York City spends daily on asylum seekers currently in shelters. It was noted that in one day alone, the city spends a whopping $8 million on them, resulting in around $240 million monthly or around $2.9 billion yearly.

This number was reportedly for the 37,500 asylum seekers that were currently in shelters. Mayor Eric Adams recently tackled the matter, sharing different plans to address the problem.

One solution was to offer two hotels in upstate Rockland County, Orange Lake and Orangeburg, to hundreds of adult male migrants.

Adams: "The national government has turned its back on New York City."

Molly Wasow Park, the Acting Commissioner for the  Department of Social Services, told the City Council that the situation was an "unprecedented humanitarian emergency."

She said that, per estimates, the city was spending $256 daily in order to house and care for migrant households. This was for each migrant household within the shelters of the Department of Homeless Services alone.

In April, city officials applied for $350 million in aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help pay for the migrant crisis costs. Still, they learned last week that they would only receive around $30.5 million.

It was recently reported that California could ask voters to approve billions of dollars more to spend on addressing the homelessness crisis. The state was ranked the highest when it came to the rate of homelessness.

The state will reportedly spend $30 million in order to build 1,200 tiny homes in an attempt to help solve the homeless crisis. These properties would be around 120 square feet in size and can be constructed in just 90 minutes with access to electricity

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Other News:

• California, which has the US’s highest rate of homelessness, will likely ask voters to approve billions of dollars more in spending to help address a crisis that’s spilled onto the streets of every major city in the state
• California will spend $30 million to build 1,200 tiny homes to help solve its homeless crisis

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