New York City's "homeless initiative" sends people across the US — without telling receiving cities

[desertdetroiter]

Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd

Why is it ok for Democrat city leaders to bus their homeless to other cities, ok meaning we don't hear a peep about it from the lefty media machine, but when Trump said he was going to bus illegal aliens to Sanctuary cities he was threatened with lawsuits??

The homeless can go anywhere they want. If the homeless wanna take the ticket and leave, they have every right to show up in any city in America. States and cities don’t get to pick their residents. Sorry.

You guys just don’t get it.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by Cape Cod Todd

Why is it ok for Democrat city leaders to bus their homeless to other cities, ok meaning we don't hear a peep about it from the lefty media machine, but when Trump said he was going to bus illegal aliens to Sanctuary cities he was threatened with lawsuits??

Seriously? You really don't understand the difference between a) helping people get where they want to go and b) loading people wholesale onto buses and making them go somewhere whether they want to go or not????

Oh brother.

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by jacqueg

Indeed. There's only about 8.75 million people left there. (https://uspopulation2019.com/populat...city-2019.html) It's really eerie to see all those abandoned buildings and empty streets in what was once the most populous city in America.

Oh wait. It's STILL the most populous city in America.

Maybe Trump would disagree with that.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie

Maybe Trump would disagree with that.

I think it's been established more than once that he often doesn't know what the bleep he's talking about...

[Roboteer]

Originally Posted by Roboteer

Looks like New York City has hit upon a "solution" they like, to the homeless problem: Ship them to other cities. Preferably without telling the other cities they're coming.

If your city is having trouble with increasing numbers of homeless, and running out of money to support them all, this may have something to do with it.

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https://nypost.com/2019/10/26/nyc-ho...eiving-cities/

NYC secretly exports homeless to Hawaii and other states without telling receiving pols

by Sara Dorn
October 26, 2019 | 5:55pm | Updated

NYC homeless initiative sends people across the US — without telling receiving cities

From the tropical shores of Honolulu and Puerto Rico, to the badlands of Utah and backwaters of Louisiana, the Big Apple has sent local homeless families to 373 cities across the country with a full year of rent in their pockets as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Special One-Time Assistance Program.” Usually, the receiving city knows nothing about it.

City taxpayers have spent $89 million on rent alone since the program’s August 2017 inception to export 5,074 homeless families — 12,482 individuals — to places as close as Newark and as far as the South Pacific, according to Department of Homeless Services data obtained by The Post. Families who once lived in city shelters decamped to 32 states and Puerto Rico.

The city also paid travel expenses, through a separate taxpayer-funded program called Project Reconnect, but would not divulge how much it spent. A Friday flight to Honolulu for four people would cost about $1,400. A bus ticket to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the same family would cost $800.

Add to the tab the cost of furnishings, which the city also did not disclose. One SOTA recipient said she received $1,000 for them.

Isn't it hilarious how, now that Texas is doing today exactly what New York did three years ago, New York politicians are furious about it?