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NEW YORK - City Comptroller Scott Stringer on Wednesday released a report that says the city is increasingly relying on commercial hotels to house people who are homeless, including paying more than $600 a night at some places in Times Square.
The Comptroller says the Department of Homeless Services is using hotel rooms to shelter nearly 6,000 homeless people, compared to just over 300 last year.
He says it comes to an "unprecedented" cost of $400,000 per day.
The most expensive rooms cost $629 per night. According to Stringer, 30 of them were booked for two days in September.
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In a statement, the mayor's office said the city is making "every attempt to keep costs low"
Actually you are incorrect. The state courts compelled NYC to house the homeless back in the 70s, and the city fiercely resisted it until the court fined them into submission. This is not something the "liberal NYC government" enacted of its own volition.
This has been going on far before deBlasio, and I am no deBlasio fan. Judges have been known to patrol shelters in NYC and will fine the city if conditions are not what they deem appropriate.
NIMBYs oppose shelters (which I get) and federal law prohibits construction of new projects (which I also get) and the NY courts have consistently said that the homeless must be housed. I would like to hear what else you would expect NYC to do.
Wealthy, low-crime city has social safety net! Sacre bleu!
Are you defending putting homeless people up in times square hotel rooms?
Take off the partisan lenses for a bit and think about that for a second. This is senseless, and can only be explained by corruption and/or incompetence:
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relying on commercial hotels to house people who are homeless, including paying more than $600 a night at some places in Times Square.
Putting aside the issue of whether or not the use of commercial hotels is good policy in the first place, there are much cheaper places in New York, and there's a not-negligible chance someone choosing locations was sleeping with, friends with, or related to the hotel managers.
If you do the math, it is a Hell of a deal, housing that many people for that much. For about the same amount, we can only send Donald to Mar-A-Lago, and keep Melania in NYC ! We need to talk to NY to see how they are able to take care of so many people with the same amount Donnie and Melania suck up every day.
But, they are worth every penny !
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