Posted on 06/19/2025 8:31:59 PM PDT by bitt
The Adams administration has inked a nearly $1 billion no-bid contract with the hotel industry for emergency shelter space — despite boasting that the migrant crisis is tapering off, The Post has learned.
Taxpayers are on the hook for the $929.1 million reupped with the Hotel Association of New York City Foundation as the total city population still includes a whopping 86,000 people, including homeless individuals and asylum seekers.
“These hotel units will be used by social services vendors to house emergency shelter clients who have entered the [Department of Homeless Services] shelter system,” the agency said in a notice posted Wednesday.
The reupped contract took effect in January and runs through June 30, 2026. It was awarded via “negotiated acquisition” – meaning it was not put out for competitive bids. The initial contract was negotiated through the end of 2025, as previously reported by The Post.
The move is a head-scratcher, said Nicole Gelinas, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
“Why do we need to be using so many hotels for day to day homeless management?,” Gelinas said. “This is turning an emergency program into a permanent program and taking a block of hotel rooms off the tourist market while people complain the city’s hotel room costs are so high.”
Gelinas said the city should have made hotels bid against each other instead of treating the hospitality industry “as a monopoly” with a sole source contract.
Under the new contract, it’s up to the Hotel Association as a “fiscal agent” of the program to connect the city with hotels that are willing to set aside rooms to shelter homeless individuals and families in exchange for rental payments.
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Imagine that 1 B being used to improve the lives of taxpayers. We might have First World cities again!
Remind me to never go to NY again. Thanks.
Insane, but it makes me smile ;-)
Let the retard voters of NYC pay.....
86 THOUSAND.
Adams is a snake who’s always parsed his words regarding illegals. He never wanted to stop illegal immigration, to much grift on the back end. I’ll bet anyone that corrupted POSis getting greased big on this deal.
Trump kissed his ass, pardoned him and got taken for a ride, along with all of us.
He has 11 other candidates wanting to be mayor
He’s trying to thread the needle to stay on top. Cuomo has a commanding lead at the moment
I would guess that most cities across the World can’t make it to 1.0 [First].
Most have trouble in making it to 1.5.
I’d suggest that many cluster around 2.0 [second].
[And there are many that struggle to get to 3.0]
A billion to the union contractors, 3 homeless illegals get a Walmart tent...
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That works out to 11 grand/year for a hotel room. I bet there are lots of working class NYers that would jump at that.
And you can be assured that money will be in others pockets not what it’s intended for.
"The Hotel Association of New York City Foundation is led by President & CEO Vijay Dandapani. The officers and board members include Chair Heather Davis, HANYC Foundation Chair, and HANYC Chairman Fred Grapstein."
I suspect the hotels are laundering this money or have a history of providing illicit services for which they are owed money, and NY is afraid to say, ‘No.’
Good God I wouldn't stay in a hotel with human vermin and the parasites and bugs they
carry. Then again, the likelihood I would ever go to anywhere New York City is nil.
$1 billion no bid contract by the NYC dems? That had better be under forensic audit from the start. And the press and conservative activist groups should FOIA everything. The press won’t. An effective watchdog group might.
$1 billion no bid contract? I wonder if a tenth of the money will find its way to actually housing people.
So, these places are known. Its occupants are leaches upon society. Someone explain to me why ICE doesn’t have a camping grounds in front of this and many other hotels?
Consolidated drug dens and cartel barrios. What could go wrong.
Such actions are to be expected from a Demonicrat city administration consisting of lying, perverted, murdering, traitors.
“Inks” lol.
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