City officials are urgently seeking another 5,000 rooms in Big Apple hotels to house migrants bound for New York City from the southern border, The Post has learned.
There is no price tag attached to the request that was released Wednesday, which was made under the emergency contracting powers invoked by Mayor Eric Adams when the migrant crisis first began in the city.
It marks a dramatic expansion of the city’s efforts to secure temporary housing for the recent arrivals, sources say.
The Department of Homeless Services had previously asked nonprofit social service providers to send in proposals to rent rooms and provide aid for 6000 families set to be housed in a luxury Midtown hotel, the Row NYC on 8th Avenue.
The new request for providers to secure thousands of rooms in hotels across the city is in addition to that, city officials confirmed.
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