The city's immigrant population is swelling to record highs
The burdens of the US border crisis have been shared unequally. Aside from border cities, no city’s migrant crisis has been more intense than New York’s, and no government system in New York more burdened than its homeless shelters. Providing services for the migrant surge that got going in spring 2022 is estimated to cost New York City more than $4 billion. Most of that sum will go to shelter.
A homeless shelter system operates almost by definition on an emergency footing, for it exists to help people in crisis. But even for longtime observers of New York’s decades-long homelessness struggle, the migrants have provided new lessons in how public policy should not respond to crises.
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Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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