is planning on spending a staggering extra $1billion on hotel rooms for immigrants for three more years.The city, currently housing about 60,000 asylum seekers, will extend its contract with local hotels that have been serving as emergency shelters during a crisis that has seen over 116,000 migrants arrive in just a year.The city's contract with the more than 100 hotels-turned-shelters, which was supposed to end this year, will now end in August 2026 and cost a total $1.365 billion - almost five times the original price tag of $237 million.
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