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Lots of people are upset at people crossing the border and getting lodging, clothing, health care, education, 3 square+snacks, play stations, lawyers, community advocates, assistance, etc.
How can you be angry and resent them for getting and using free stuff that is willingly given to them? Why wouldn't those people then spread the word back home?
Hmmm, why isn't the philanthropy extended to the neediest [countries].
But back to the lottery units. It is a fact that a very small % will be given to some of them. Say, in a building with 75 units, maybe 2 will go to a family that never joined the lottery and considered emergency assistance.
This may be true because people in shelters share a quota of units with 60 AMI. The people who are bumped out will be NYC homeless and 60AMI.
Has anyone here ever had any experience applying for housing with family members who do not have SSN or ITIN? I have a GC and make enough to support my parents (legal immigrants) by qualifying in the 100%+ AMI bucket. I reached out to HC instructions on how to apply using them as household members but never heard back.
Has anyone here ever had any experience applying for housing with family members who do not have SSN or ITIN? I have a GC and make enough to support my parents (legal immigrants) by qualifying in the 100%+ AMI bucket. I reached out to HC instructions on how to apply using them as household members but never heard back.
Any insights would be appreciated. Thank you!
If your parents are legal immigrants why don't they have SSNs? If they never bothered previously why not simply get them now?
That being said do not believe SSN is a requirement for applying. Illegal aliens are allowed to apply for and receive "affordable" or "low income" housing via these lotteries and they usually do not have valid SSNs.
This makes me sad to read this, but not for the reason you'd expect. I hate to see this trash talk on this side of the NYC forum.
The New York Post is not an objective chronicler of events. It is basically a mouthpiece of the Republican Party, which needs to continually stir up MAGA resentment and pit groups of people against one another to take attention away from the real injustices in our society.
In short, I would not trust the Post on this.
Plus, this is happening upstate, according to the article, not within NYC lottery apartments.
And even if you want to believe the article, it states that the homeless vets were moved to another hotel.
The MAGA people have already poisoned the other side of the NYC forum, and I hate for it to happen here too. The lottery side has been so helpful to everyone and politics-free.
"If homeless veterans are being kicked out of housing or moved about to make room for migrants it gives you an idea of some people's priorities."
Just for the record, this turned out to be a big old lie:
"The founder of a nonprofit group has been accused of fabricating a story about homeless military veterans being evicted from a New York hotel to make room for migrants, a tale that stoked days of outrage on cable news networks.
One Republican lawmaker in New York who helped spread the story is now calling for an investigation, saying he and others were duped."
They tell you stupid rickety lies because they think you're mean enough to want to believe them and too dumb to check (or notice if they get debunked). Up to you if you want to prove them right.
If our city and state stopped stalling out construction of new buildings/ development of more residential housing we wouldn’t be having this problem. They let 421-a lapse without planning a replacement. They have been slow on office conversions and turning hotels into housing. If you want to be mad at anyone, be mad at Hochul and Adams… not the people desperate to find safety for their families. There are children who need homes. Just because it’s not your children doesn’t mean they don’t matter. Instead of complaining: ORGANIZE! Fight to bring change to the city’s housing production policies. Protest for MORE HOUSING instead of fighting our peers who want the same thing.
The only thing people in power care about is money and power. If we protest, we humiliate them and threaten their potential for locking in donors. They have to listen. Get up off your couch and affect change.
"If homeless veterans are being kicked out of housing or moved about to make room for migrants it gives you an idea of some people's priorities."
Just for the record, this turned out to be a big old lie:
"The founder of a nonprofit group has been accused of fabricating a story about homeless military veterans being evicted from a New York hotel to make room for migrants, a tale that stoked days of outrage on cable news networks.
One Republican lawmaker in New York who helped spread the story is now calling for an investigation, saying he and others were duped."
They tell you stupid rickety lies because they think you're mean enough to want to believe them and too dumb to check (or notice if they get debunked). Up to you if you want to prove them right.
^THIS 100%. All it takes is a quick dig on google to be informed. Thank you, random! <3
Im surprised that so many people here cannot read.
Literally no one is hating immigrants or mad at them. Many of you however have been very hateful in this thread to anyone who may be concerned for other groups having a difficult time. Humans are humans and we should care for all people equally.
Whether you like it or not, this is being called a crisis by leadership.
You all are clearly missing the point and it’s sick that you made this into immigrant hate rather than humans having genuine concern about how other humans already here in need/in difficult situations may be negatively impacted.
You all want CB preference for an affordable apartment but you don’t think homeless or otherwise struggling US citizens should be prioritized for decent housing. That’s hypocritical.
I’m sure migrants are great people and deserve better than what they’ve had to go through. The situation sucks for how it’s being handled. Period.
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