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A FEMA program paid for the temporary housing until the federal aid dried up in December. The city was forced to foot the bill, and issued a $1.4 million dollar contract allowing displaced families to remain at the Millennium Downtown hotel on Church Street until the end of February. “Even though federal funding already ended for the emergency hotel rooms, we will continue working tirelessly until all of these families have a place to call home,” a spokesperson for the department of Housing Preservation and Development said in a statement.to use on the open market.
, a spokesperson for HPD said the agency has been working with developers to schedule apartment viewings and secure units that would otherwise fall under the city’s housing lottery.
These people have been living in hotels for months since being displaced by the hurricane. Yet failed to find suitable housing while living for FREE. Many are working and still wants the City to continue to provide housing for them. Unno tap it!
But the migrants are still being put up in NYC hotels?