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| quote: Originally posted by punch out:
This is not about NIMBYs, it's about an out of control drug abuse and mental health crisis, with the slum-lords profiting because they know the City needs to legally supply places to live—an no one in the City has a clue how to control it. People are being warehoused in hotels (at full rate), slum-lord buildings converted into pricy units—and those who were paying tenants are being evicted to make way. All of this has exasperated the affordable housing stock further.
Addendum: Many of the street homeless in my neighborhood will not go to shelters because they are either too unstable to know better and/or will not submit to curfews or cull their belongings—as shopping carts full of trash are not allowed in shelters. These are the most seriously in need of mental health services, and many are so out of it that they will not accept help.
The article is incorrect as this is the direct result of extreme nimbyism. As long as the effects of these social policies weren't affecting them personally, most people could care less how destructive they are to the overall quality of life. The addendum statement is spot on. The shopping cart crew is near the bottom of the homeless food chain along with the cardboard box crowd, with the shoeless concession. Under Red Dave the number of subway squatters has jumped dramatically. I haven't smelt this many homeless since the mid 80's.
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| Para pointed out the post from another site without a link as it was behind a paywall. Here is some additional information. My emphasis. NYC Dept. of Homeless Servicesquote: Governed by a unique right to shelter mandate, New York City provides temporary emergency shelter to every man, woman, and child who is eligible for services, every night.
Gotham's right-to-shelter promise (This is from May 2017) quote: When shelters aren’t available, the city has frequently turned to alternatives: “cluster” apartments, where two little girls were killed by a faulty radiator in December; or hotel rooms, which cost taxpayers more than half a million dollars a day as late February, according to City Comptroller Scott Stringer.
Boston v. City of New York (NYS Supreme Court Decision) quote: Eligible homeless families with children, defined as families with children who lack alternate housing, and families with children seeking shelter who, pending the City's eligibility determination, qualify for shelter pursuant to applicable local and/or State law, codes, regulations and agency guidances ("applicable law"), are entitled to emergency shelter and the City shall not deny shelter to such families.
Here is the web page on the NYC DHS site concerning applying for temporary housing assistance City spending $365M per year on hotels for homeless (From March 2018) quote: The Department of Homeless Services will spend $364 million each year over the next few years housing homeless people in hotels — almost double the cost of previous years, according to some estimates.
The department released the projections Friday afternoon following a recent contentious City Council hearing on Mayor Bill de Blasio's preliminary budget, focused on rising costs of sheltering homeless people in the city. According to numbers analyzed by City Comptroller Scott Stringer last year, the city spent roughly $530,000 per day on hotel rooms for the homeless. Spending by the city will now be just shy of $1 million a day.
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