(New York Post) New York taxpayers will dole out $20 million a month to house migrants on Randall’s Island, according to a state source — or $10,000 per asylum-seeker if the site fills all of its 2,000 beds.
The makeshift facility off Manhattan is one of four migrant housing sites fully funded by the state as part of a desperate effort to keep up with the flood of migrants who have New York City at its breaking point.
A well-placed source with the state told The Post over the weekend that the state is providing $20 million a month to run the Randall’s center.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced last week that the migrant crunch in the Big Apple is expected to cost an overall whopping $12 billion for the next three years.
“We are past our breaking point,” Adams said during a City Hall briefing Wednesday. “With more than 57,300 individuals currently in our care on an average night, it amounts to $9.8 million a day, almost $300 million a month and nearly $3.6 billion a year.”
A new migrant shelter on Randall’s Island will house up to 2,000 asylum-seekers — but at a hefty price.
The mega-shelter on Randall’s Island will cost state taxpayers an estimated $20 million a month.
The cost of the Randall’s Island migrant shelter works out to $10,000 per migrant a month if the 2,000-bed facility reaches capacity.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has been struggling to cope with the flood of migrants into the state.
New York City has seen 100,000 migrants from the US border flock into the Big Apple since spring 2022, leaving the Big Apple at “the breaking point,” Mayor Eric Adams has said.
