Well, this makes sense. Create a climate for moochers and malcontents, then ship ’em off to unsuspecting municipalities without asking if they are welcome in their new domiciles.
Yet one more reason why New York sucks.
New York City is spreading its homeless crisis across the nation by quietly sending homeless people to other cities in the U.S., all without giving the receiving cities a heads up
Why are they doing this? Because it’s cheaper to ship ’em out with a year’s worth of rent than to house them in New York.
The Department of Homeless Services defended the high costs of the program, saying that housing the homeless in city-run shelters costs $41,000 per family per year compared with the average yearly rent of $17,563 to transplant families elsewhere.
Instead of focusing on fixing their problems at home, they decide to redistribute their problems elsewhere. Kinda like dumping your good-for-nothing brother on your cousin because you’re tired of the dude leaving his dirty socks and underwear on your living room chair and eating you out of house and home.
The Post reported that city taxpayers spent $89 million on rent to ship 5,074 homeless families—or 12,482 individuals— out of the city since the program started in August 2017.
The families, initially housed in the city’s shelters, were sent to 32 states and far-flung locales such as Puerto Rico.
The city also doled out money for travel expenses through another city taxpayer-funded program called Project Reconnect, but there was no word on how much the city spent on this program.
The Department of Homeless Services defended the high costs of the program, saying that housing the homeless in city-run shelters costs $41,000 per family per year compared with the average yearly rent of $17,563 to transplant families elsewhere.
At least there is a little pushback:
Even though the agency claims it is saving money, the cities on the receiving end of the program are reportedly not happy.
Newark city spokesman Mark Di Ionno said that the city—home to 1,198 families who are part of the program— is “in the process of passing an ordinance to ban New York from sending us SOTA clients.”
I hate women who use their foot to flush public toilets because they are so germaphobic that they don’t want to touch the handle. Some of ’em refuse to even flush the toilet at all. Yabbut…that means that others have to clean up their mess or deal with whatever they’ve stepped in all day.
Kinda like NYC. They should learn to flush their own turds, metaphorically speaking. Don’t create a climate where you attract slackers and/or don’t encourage folks to get up and go to work. As I’ve always said: “Necessity is the mother of getting off your butt.”
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