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For the coming fiscal year NYC will spend 1.4 billion (USD) on the homeless including shelters and other services. This is more than several other city agencies including parks and transportation.
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.
For the coming fiscal year NYC will spend 1.4 billion (USD) on the homeless including shelters and other services. This is more than several other city agencies including parks and transportation.
How about a private room w private bathroom for each homeless person or family?
Not trying to be nasty, I mean this. For the money being spent, let the homeless have dignity instead of the money going to the usual poverticians.
How much of this one billion will actually go to those who need it?
Another answer would be for the city to mass evict all those people in projects making over 75 thousand a year. More than you'd think in that category. Evict them, let them buy condos, co-ops, pay stabilized rent, leave the city.....................
Put the real poor into the projects. That's who the projects were intended for (at least to some extent). Give true poor families and individuals who fell through the cracks a real chance at some dignity.
Ridiculous. This is what happens when you vote a Dem to office. A lot of social programs are pushed with no funding plan. I guess raising taxes is the only solution.
Some quick math shows the sums amount to nearly $20K per homeless person according to numbers given that currently in the system. This is just for *one* fiscal year mind.
Think Bloomberg or whomever made the suggestion was on target, cut these persons a check for say $10K as long as they pack up and leave with a vow never to return. The City would still come out ahead fiscally and these persons could live very well elsewhere with that kind of money.
Think Bloomberg or whomever made the suggestion was on target, cut these persons a check for say $10K as long as they pack up and leave with a vow never to return. .
I am amused envisioning different states have a same strategy to oust all these homeless people.
$10,000 x 50 states= $500,000
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