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Most materials are not even expensive, Though upkeep is a concern- But it's a start. Many of these people have addictions and mental illness, Some do not. Regardless there is no right about not helping someone who at least wants off the streets. These are human beings. Something like this can even happen to us on here as well, It's not impossible.
They should look at what Tennessee is doing to their homeless - simply letting them live in tent cities (aka slums). It's a win-win for both the gov't, taxpayers and the homeless. The arrangement costs a lot less than what NYC is planning to spend and there's no pressure on the homeless to leave their localities within a specified time.
During the Great Depression, scores of homeless lived inside of Central Park right next to the rich and wealthy. The city should turn Central Park into a massive tent city.
There should be a 'vegas for the homeless' out in some dessert like Nevada, New Mexico, etc. provide the bare minimum life essentials and a way for people to provide for themselves, eg some way to mass produce food, etc. provide free transportation from major cities twice per month, but no transportation back unless you can document a job, place to stay, etc. mandate infertility treatment as a prerequisite to your free stay.
Bloomberg issued revenue bonds to extend the 7 train to 34th and 11th. The revenue bonds were backed by the future tax revenues of the Hudson Yards area.
So if more tall buildings were built in the South Bronx, Harlem, East River Brooklyn and Queens, the city could issue bonds and use that to pay for transit expansion (building new subway lines) and other infrastructure. The bonds could be backed by all the real estate revenues coming from these areas.
De Blasio has also announced the city will astronomically increase taxes on those who warehouse property. In other words, speculators who buy up empty properties around the city and in poor areas (Jamaica, Harlem, the Bronx, Coney Island, etc.) and basically just hold on to them as they wait for a fantastic deal. De Blasio would pressure these people to sell for developers.
That's an excellent idea that would get rid of abandoned properties and lots in certain parts of town, and with development like tall buildings there, the city would have increased tax revenue from these areas.
They should look at what Tennessee is doing to their homeless - simply letting them live in tent cities (aka slums). It's a win-win for both the gov't, taxpayers and the homeless. The arrangement costs a lot less than what NYC is planning to spend and there's no pressure on the homeless to leave their localities within a specified time.
Who cares what Tennessee is doing or any DEEP SOUTH state?
During the Great Depression, scores of homeless lived inside of Central Park right next to the rich and wealthy. The city should turn Central Park into a massive tent city.
They could do that. I don't think it will impress tourists or do a lot for real estate values on the UES or UWS. The headlines will read Manhattan's Central Park becomes SKID ROW.................
Who cares what Tennessee is doing or any DEEP SOUTH state?
Considering its a growth area and NY is slowly dying under the weight of taxes and old infrastructure...Id say you should care, you might be living there one day.
Considering its a growth area and NY is slowly dying under the weight of taxes and old infrastructure...Id say you should care, you might be living there one day.
Southern states are not utopian states and big parts of the South, including big parts of TN, are not growth areas.
And to be honest, this isn't the 70s or the 80s when poor people from New York could more easily move to South. Housing and gas prices (everyone has to drive) are high enough that the minimum wage/low income are stuck in NYC unless they have family to move in with, a GOOD job lined up, or they got into an university.
Metro NYC is not dying. It has it's issue, but it is still the largest city by population and it is still the nation's business center. Right wingers hate it due to political purposes.
New York has Wall Street, media, the tech sector, and education. What does TN have? Non union auto plants and other crappy low wage blue collar jobs?
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