New York City plans to spend $1.1B to house homeless in hotels

My family lives a mile from NYC and they don't like this idea.

Does anyone here have our generous taxpayers paying for their $5,000 per month rents or mortgages which comes with maid services? Who here has tax payers picking up their electric, water, gas, sewer and trash bills every month? Kinda nice to have free air conditioning all summer long, eh?

This is going to attract tons of unproductive and professionally worthless people to the NYC area who will ultimately resort to crime to get what the tax payers don't give them for free. Worse yet, with NYC being a sanctuary city, illegals will run to it like ICE was chasing them.

We don't feed the bears because the bears then come to rely on people to survive and can't survive on their own.

 

Why don't they use that ridiculously large sum, cut it in a quarter, and put up some of those really cheap hablock things for these homeless people out on some of those abandoned islands?

 

These are the geniuses who look down their noses at the Americans living in "flyover country".

May they enjoy the government they so richly deserve...

 

The message here is pretty obvious.

Quit my job -->
default on my mortgage -->
move to NYC -->
apply for my free hotel room -->
sit around all day ordering room service, watching HBO, and visiting the hotel pool -->
and vote Democrat so I can live free while slaves work to support me.

 

Equal protection of the law is a better excuse for unemployment compensation on an at-will basis in our at-will employment States.

 

Why cant they bring them to farms where there is plenty of food, shelter, and WORK!!! Are they afraid the illegal aliens will go home when they don't find work?

 

And there's the rub, these people get freebies without having to work for it. Of course, in NYC, if the homeless were asked to clean streets and parks the unions would have meltdowns.

 

just "feel good" policy. equal protection of the law, really is an Entitlement.

 

I live in the country and we don't have plenty of food, shelter and work to offer but I'm aware of a wall that requires construction on our southern border that could use some laborers.

 

There isn't a whole lot of farmland in NYC. And the city has already been caught dumping homeless in other towns as well as buying them one way airline tickets to different states.

 

Most people cannot afford to live in NYC. The state has an abundance of farm land, food, work, and shelter. I would love to believe that a month or two in a hotel room would fix their problem and turn them in to productive citizens.

 

This is because Shitbalsio and the rest of the Democrats are demented, incompetent brainless morons that consider the non-white poor and criminals the best the city has to offer and there is no amount of money or inconvenience to others that should not be spent on them. And that is a fact.

 

how about a fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage and new cities, instead?

 

I'm a native New Yorker. Maybe now I can finally afford to move back to the city.

What a deal!

 

Put your money where your mouth is. No one's stopping you from paying people $15/hr. and building them new cities.

 

Well at least until everyone stops working and moves into the hotels.

 

I'm with the poster, Aphotic, who says that NYC could put up cheap housing blocks for the homeless.

The only thing keeping them from it would be a lack of space. I don't know if that's an issue.

 

Those people you talk about, are already there. We have them here in Florida too, but they can live "out in the woods" maybe better than there in NYC.

The homeless look so bad BECAUSE they are homeless. Depending upon what values society holds in esteem, there might be remedies for the situation. I'm not saying there is, I'm simply considering that there might be remedies available. That's something public servants should consider.

 

lol. let's end the drug war, to pay for it.

 

Aid for homeless should NEVER be available in big cities. It should be conditional upon residence in impoverished remote and rural areas.

 

Musn't offend the poor souls who - through no fault of their own - were forced to become obnoxious drunks who don't care for responsibility.

 

If hard working and clean living people can't afford NYC, how in hell can anyone justify this?

 

$5,290 a month for what does not qualify even as an efficiency apartment.

 

Public servants can somehow magically turn irresponsible addicts into productive citizens?

Wow .. that's some strong stuff you're drinking

 

So I can't speak to this plan because as per usual NY Post news style it was like someone shouted the gist of the news at me instead of a fully written article, but here is one approach that has worked in other cities around the world and a few in the US.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/world/canada/homeless-canada-medicine-hat-housing-first.html

It should be noted that shelter is on the bottom of the Maslow hierarchy of needs pyramid, so it only makes sense to address those needs at the base first before worrying about anything else. People who have shelter feel as though they can address other needs such as safety and making money and whatnot. It then let's them focus all their time on solving their other problems, be it addiction or mental illness, instead of spending most of their time trying to survive on the streets.