The $12 billion immigrant crisis has touched nearly every aspect of municipal government over the past year — with the city even tapping into the arts to fight back, City Hall’s annual report card shows.
As officials race to respond to a wave of thousands of unexpected arrivals forced to rely on the Big Apple for housing and other services, shelter costs have entered the stratosphere and led to a surge in applications for Big Apple municipal IDNYC cards, according to a report A sprawling 520 pages, released late Friday.
The city is so desperate for help that it even enlisted the mayor’s office of Materials for the Arts, which is dedicated to funding museums and other institutions, to distribute clothing at shelters, according to a report summarizing the city’s services during fiscal 2023.
“This year, in addition to teaching housing artists, MFTA served as an important resource for asylum seekers, providing much-needed clothing and supplies to shelters,” the Department of Cultural Affairs wrote in its annual report section.
The number of families relying on the scandal-hit Department of Homeless Services for shelter jumped 50 percent last year — from 8,500 families to more than 12,700.
During the reporting period, which ran from July 2022 to June 2023, the total number of people in DHS shelters increased to 66,195 from 45,563 the previous year.
The $12 billion immigration crisis has touched nearly every aspect of municipal government over the past year — with the city even tapping into the arts to fight back, City Hall’s annual report card shows.Aristide Economopoulos
As officials race to respond to the thousands of incoming immigrants who rely on the Big Apple for housing and other services, shelter costs have entered the stratosphere and led to a surge in applications for municipal IDNYC cards. Paul Martinka
The city was so desperate for help that it even secured a portion of the mayor’s Materials for the Arts office, which is dedicated to funding museums and other institutions.Paul Martinka
“Without the new asylum seeker population, the overall census would be approximately 10 percent higher than before the start of asylum seeker intake in April 2022,” DHS wrote.
The cost of renting all hotel rooms played into the MMR as well as the average cost of sheltering a family with children in 2023 jumped to $232.40, up from $188.20 in 2022.
The strain placed on the protection system shows up in other ways: The number of requests for interpreters almost doubled in just one year from 47,504 to 84,020.
The Human Resources Administration, the city’s social services arm, reported that the percentage of New Yorkers successfully diverted from entering the shelter system dropped slightly from 8.1% to 7.6% because of the influx of immigrants, who are eligible for fewer services.
Meanwhile, applications for the Big Apple ID program, created to provide a form of identification for anyone without a driver’s license regardless of immigration status, jumped 14 percent, from 168,000 in 2022 to 192,000 in 2023.
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