New York City's emergency shelter system already was overloaded before a surge of migrant asylum-seekers began arriving last spring on buses from other states.
As the crisis unfolded, NYC quickly opened more than 200 ad hoc emergency shelters to deal with the initial waves of migrants pouring into the five boroughs seeking shelter. The 200 sites quickly filled with 56,000 people.
NYC turned to vacant hotels as its next patchwork solution, inking deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In January, a $275M deal was reached with the Hotel Association of NYC to house at least 5,000 migrants.
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