Migrant crisis costs NYC taxpayers $10MILLION EVERY DAY: Eric Adams boasts the city is shelling out $387 to house and feed each immigrant after his cost-cutting efforts

New York City is spending on average $387 each day on every migrant household in taxpayer-funded shelters despite efforts from Eric Adams to slash expenditure. 

The $387 is the 'cumulative per diem' - which is the average amount spent on a migrant household, including providing them shelter and food, every day since the crisis began in Spring 2022.

February's average was down $5 from the reported expenditure in October 2023, when around 65,400 migrants were in shelters. 

The number has been gradually going down every month since October and is projected to stay on a declining trajectory. 

Based on the average US household containing 2.5 people, there are 26,100 households in the Big Apple's migrant shelters. 

This forecasts over $10.12 million per day being spent on migrants in the city.

New York City is spending on average $387 each day on every migrant household in taxpayer-funded shelters despite efforts from Eric Adams to slash expenditure

Efforts from New York City Mayor Eric Adams (pictured) to slash the amount of government funding being spent on migrants and reduce the number of asylum-seekers in taxpayer-funded shelters

The $387 is the 'cumulative per diem' - which is the average amount spent on a migrant household every day since the crisis began in Spring 2022

February's average was down $5 from the reported expenditure in October 2023, when around 65,400 migrants were in shelters

However, the majority of people coming through the southern border and finding their way to New York City are single individuals - meaning that the average household among the migrant population may be less than 2.5.  

There are efforts from NYC to slash the amount of government funding being spent on migrants and reduce the number of asylum-seekers in taxpayer-funded shelters. 

Since October, the total migrant population under city-care has gone down by at least 600.

Mayor Eric Adams' administration have been working to combat the migrant crisis, which has been predicted to cost the city $10 billion over next fiscal year. 

'In the last two months, Mayor Adams has laid out plans to save billions of taxpayer dollars as New York City manages a national humanitarian crisis, and the numbers show that our efforts are working,' a City Hall spokesperson told The Post on Tuesday, adding that they 'expect to save $2.3 billion by next summer.' 

In January, a government report claimed that what New Yorkers are seeing is not an 'an unprecedented surge in immigration.'

'While New York City is seeing an unprecedented number of asylum seekers relying on the City’s shelter system, the U.S. and New York City have seen periods of comparable or greater growth in our immigrant population in the past,' the report stated.

It went on to claim that the immigrant population in the US has only risen marginally since 2021. 

According to the data, the growth of the immigrant population in 2022 is two million less than the US Census Bureau predicted. 

The period from 2012 to 2022 saw slower growth in the immigrant share of the population than the 2000s, 1990s, 1980s and 1970s, according to the data report.  

Mayor Eric Adams' administration have been working to combat the migrant crisis, which has been predicted to cost the city $10 billion over next fiscal year

Recently arrived migrants are pictured walking outside Floyd Bennett Field shelter on February 21, 2024 in Brooklyn

Since October, the total migrant population under city-care has gone down by at least 600

The recent data from City Hall comes just weeks after Mayor Eric Adams was accused of wasting millions of taxpayer dollars on no-bid contracts that pay for-profit companies 'exorbitant rates' to manage emergency shelters for asylum-seeking migrants.

City Comptroller Brad Lander made the claim in a review of migrant-related contracts which identified 340 asylum-seeker contracts representing an estimated contract value of $5.7 billion.

Most of those contracts were procured on an emergency basis, allowing the city to waive the usual competitive bidding requirements, according to the report. 

'The asylum-seeker contracts show the dangers of this process run amok — wildly high staffing prices with little consistency across agencies, costing much more than traditional procurements or hiring city employees,' the report said.

A City Hall spokesperson told DailyMail.com in a statement that the city is pursuing cost-saving measures as emergency contracts expire, adding: 'We will review the full report and address any issues that need to be rectified.' 

'New York City has led the nation in managing this national humanitarian crisis, helping more than 60 percent of the nearly 180,000 migrants who have come through our care since the spring of 2022 move out of our shelter system and take the next steps of their journeys,' the spokesperson said.

'Our success stems in large part from our ability to adapt and respond to the evolving needs of this crisis,' the statement added. 

More than 170,000 migrants have arrived in the city since the spring of 2022, and the crisis is only deepening as they continue to be bussed from Texas where record numbers are entering.

In January, Adams announced the original 20 percent cut that reduced costs from the migrant crisis from $12.25 billion to $10.6 billion over the next three years

Adams received backlash for announcing a $53 million debit card scheme that could give a family of migrants with two children under the age of 17 up to $15,200-a-year

In January, Adams announced the original 20 percent cut that reduced costs from the migrant crisis over the next three years.

'If we had to do the third rounds, it will impact garbage pickup, it will impact our services to our older adults, it will impact libraries, you will impact a series of services that you will actually see the difference. We're not going to have to do those third rounds, that third round of cuts to our agencies,' Adams said.

'You're not going to see some of those draconian steps that we were going to have to take that will get in the way of the cleanliness and the safety of our city.' 

The Immediate Response Card initiative will see the city partner with the New Jersey bank Mobility Capital Finance to give prepaid cards to new arrivals to allow them to buy food and baby supplies instead of the current food services in shelters.

Under the scheme, a single migrant could be given $345 a month, while a family of eight could be given $2,203 a month, according to a new cost breakdown seen by The New York Post.

Likewise, a family of three could receive $932 per month and a family of four could be given $1,195 per month to spend on food at local grocery stores, supermarkets and bodegas.

A start date for the scheme has not been set but the pilot will include 500 families at the Roosevelt Hotel and could eventually include up to 6,500 families, with officials saying it will save $600,000 per month and $7.2 million annually.