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According to the NY Times, the City is substantially expanding it's renting out hotel rooms for homeless people. The hotel rooms rented out are not SROs, they are budget hotels that will likely end up becoming SROs as this trend continues. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/ny...ty-hotels.html
"The increase has been stark: About 12 percent of the total homeless population is now being housed in hotel rooms, compared with just 4 percent in January.
On Jan. 1, the city was using 508 hotel rooms for homeless families with children, comprising 1,237 people, according to the Department of Homeless Services. On Nov. 30, 2,418 rooms were being rented for families with children, amounting to 5,798 people.
Now, the city plans to expand its hotel portfolio for homeless families by up to 436 rooms, with 225 of them reserved for families without minor children — the first time the city has earmarked hotel rooms for such families, officials said. The city also plans to add 100 or more hotel rooms for homeless individuals."
But look at this.
"Cluster housing is considered problematic because it takes affordable apartments off the market and, since the apartments are scattered, it can be difficult to get adequate services to families. On Wednesday, two young girls whose family was placed by the city in a cluster apartment died, apparently after being burned by steam from a radiator."
The city itself admits that taking apartments and turning them into WELFARE apartments is problematic because it takes AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS off the MARKET for working people.
My solution? With all these states legalizing marijuana, NY should legalizing marijuana. They should legalize prostitution, and institute further deregulations. The recently passed restrictions against Airbnb should be undone. They set up a system making it almost impossible for a good section of the public to support themselves via work. So after homelessness skyrockets under Bloomberg, it gets even worse under de Blasio who is just throwing welfare dollars at the problem.
this is happening alot in DC too.....half the hotels and inns on New York Avenue are welfare motels.......
This is a byproduct of gentrification.......i keep telling people at these boards you gentrify and uproot poor people out of their neighborhoods most of them are not just going to magically dissappear like yall would like them to......idiots *smh*
Airbnb takes affordable apartments off the market too, so I don't know why you are advocating removing the restrictions. You sound like a typical Republican who wants unfettered everything.
And in your first sentence, it's should be its. It's means "it is." A writer dude should know that.
Stop housing people who come from other places (around the country, and around the globe) to NY just because they know they'll get free stuff.
NYC's generosity is killing actual New Yorkers, and many actual New Yorkers have problems that should be addressed before we fix everyone else's problems...
Deregulating Airbnb is a ridiculous solution to the housing crisis.
Legalizing and regulating marijuana and prostitution is fine, but I'm not sure how this helps with this in particular unless you're saying that the homeless should be prostitutes?
We have individuals having kids that have no business having kids since they are not financially, emotionally or mentally ready to have a family. This issue will be on-going since people feel it's necessary for them to have kids regardless of their life status. Other factor is the decline of the nuclear family in terms of immediate and extended members. Families are not stable or cohesive as they were in the past. This is due to a broken family, money problems, drug addiction or violence in the household.
A lot of new apartment buildings are priced for the rich and elite, the middle class are priced out from those apartments. This is creating a housing bubble. Micro-apts priced at 2,800 - 3,200. Who are you kidding?
Landlords/property owners are gentrifying their properties in order to get more $$$. This creates a burden for middle and poor class as prices will go up but their salary or salary increases do not match or exceed the rise of COL, inflation, medical insurance, etc.
We live in a dog eat dog society. My only advise would be never get into any debt that you can't pay off in a year. Don't commit any type of crime since a criminal record is a scarlet letter especially if you are a minority. Learn about personal and investment finance. Stop buying stuff that you don't need.
new york wouldn't be new york if it didn't have people from all over coming...
Yes and no. Certainly there is value in many people coming to the city. However, right now, New York City is required by court order to provide housing to anyone, regardless of their most recent address. For example, the couple whose daughters died had traveled from their home in Maine to New York and went directly to the homeless services office for housing on arrival (the father had lived in New York years ago so knew how to work the system). I don't think most people feel that this family should have been required to be offered housing by the homeless services agency in New York City; if they were homeless in Maine (they weren't), they should have sought services in Maine. Nor do I think most people would say that we should encourage similar types of movement to NYC that were in significant part motivated by the prospect of free housing.
That said, people with their most recent address outside of NYC is a relatively small (about 2%) portion of the total homeless population served by homeless services. (On the other hand, this may be in part because people claim addresses in NYC, which are not verified, where they have never actually lived when applying for services, or otherwise move to NYC, live in a friend's place for a month and then claim homeless services; the percent of homeless who had an address outside of NYC within the last two years is around 25%.)
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