The flood of incoming migrants is ending, but New York City is looking at a years -long hangover from the crisis unless it finally wakes up to the evils of the shelter-industrial complex.
Having already spent $7 billion on sheltering and caring for the hundreds of thousands of “asylum seekers,” the city still hosts about 45,000 in the shelter system — about the same as the number of regular homeless it housed as the crisis began in 2022.
With the illegal-migrant influx tapering off toward zero, City Hall still says it could take years for the system to stabilize…