Years later, progress made with shelter plan, but it's still incomplete (Adams: middle-class, apartments)

[Aeran]

Sigh. Don't know how much better Adams will do. It's such a dilemma with no easy solutions. I wonder what his plans are.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs...sts_po-organic

Raymond Rosa and his three kids have been in the city’s shelter system a little over a year.

First they lived at a hotel in Queens, and now they’re in the Bronx, not too far from where Rosa grew up.

“It’s a hundred times better,” Rosa told NY1 this week while walking through the neighborhood. “I get to cook my own food, have my own space, have my own TV.”

In Feb. 2017, the de Blasio administration promised a dramatic overhaul of the city's homeless shelter system

Years later, some of those goals have been accomplished while others are imcomplete.

The city successfully ended a decades-long program housing people experiencing homelessness in private apartments (known as clusters). But not every shelter has opened under the plan, and it's unclear if an Adams administration will finish the job.

[Mr.Retired]

I can absolutely be sure that everybody knows of at least one person
who has gone thru life without one day of employment all the while
being gifted our tax dollars....

This is inexcusable , set aside physical and mental disabilities.

I can understand giving a leg up when someone is in need
but a smarter strategy would be supplying jobs and creating
incentives to work and becoming a contributing member
of society rather than crippling it.

[dfc99]

Adams has to make a choice. Either support NYC's middle-class neighborhoods or see them slowly be destroyed by the placement of homeless shelters.

[randomperson2]

”I can absolutely be sure that everybody knows of at least one person
who has gone thru life without one day of employment all the while
being gifted our tax dollars....”

Sure. The Hamptons are full of them.

[LOVEROFNYC]

Originally Posted by randomperson2

”I can absolutely be sure that everybody knows of at least one person
who has gone thru life without one day of employment all the while
being gifted our tax dollars....”

Sure. The Hamptons are full of them.

To live in the Hamptons cost tons of money. There are no govt supplied housing. Everyone living in the rich Hamptons either had a job, business or ancestor who passed down generational wealth. Those are very different circumstances to sitting on welfare for generations and expecting the govt (and by extension tax payers) to provide for your family's basic needs.

I understand poverty ( which is relative in America. I am from a third world country. No one in America is poor with free school, food, healthcare, housing, bus pass etc). But this lack of pride and ambition is appalling.