The US needs immigrants to fill jobs, but can’t house them. Nowhere makes this more clear than New York City. [Video]

No country in the world attracts more immigrants than the US — and no place symbolizes this better than New York City.

The convergence of the Big Apple’s historic housing affordability crisis and an influx of asylum seekers has created a perfect storm that threatens to further marginalize the city’s most vulnerable newcomers.

Over the last two years, New York City has struggled to handle more than 175,000 new migrants — part of an influx of asylum seekers on the Southern border. Many new arrivals don’t have family members or other connections in New York, and tens of thousands of them don’t have a place to live when they arrive.

But the city has a policy that’s exceedingly rare in the US: it must provide a shelter bed for every unhoused person — a policy known as right-to-shelter, enforced by a 1981 state Supreme Court ruling. About 65,000 migrants are now living in about 200 emergency shelters, thousands more are in tent complexes, and others are …