NYC thinks Census Bureau estimates missed tens of thousands of asylum seekers

By MIKE SCHNEIDER
Associated Press

Three New York City boroughs have lost almost 80,000 residents from people moving away last year. That’s according to population estimates released Thursday. But city officials think those numbers are a vast undercount that didn’t capture the influx of asylum seekers who came to the city. The city rented out entire hotels to house some of the tens of thousands of migrants who came to New York City and also put cots in schools and temporarily housed people in tents. As many as 50,000 people were overlooked in the city’s shelters, according to city officials, who plan to challenge the 2023 population estimates with the U.S. Census Bureau.