New York county struggles with influx of migrants from NYC exacerbating homelessness crisis

New York counties describe how a potential influx of asylum seekers from New York City will affect housing and put a strain on their resources.

For Ontario County in western New York, the influx of migrants has the potential to exacerbate an already growing housing crisis, county administrator Chris DeBolt told Fox News Digital.  Cortney O'Brien is an Editor at Fox News. Twitter: @obrienc2

"On any one given night, we average around 175 homeless individuals that we're trying to place through the Department of Social Services," DeBolt told Fox News Digital. "And finding hotel rooms for temporary emergency placements for those individuals has proved increasingly difficult as of late. So we've kind of got the emergency housing component that we're struggling with the current population. And then, in general, housing of all types is an issue across the county."