New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an initiative Tuesday that promised to “end long-term street homelessness as we know it” by bringing thousands of people off of the streets and into permanent or transitional housing within five years. [...]
The city plans to spend an estimated $120 million next year on the plan, which will create 1,000 new permanent apartments.
— The Wall Street Journal
The mayor's office has outlined de Blasio's latest plan to house the estimated 3,600 homeless people currently living on New York City streets — a fraction of the city's total homeless population of 80,000 — in the action plan The Journey Home.
We’re announcing a plan to END long-term street homelessness in our city. Join us at @Judsonchurchnyc. https://t.co/MLsxyJuHfh
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) December 17, 2019
The Wall Street Journal reports that under the new directive, the City also plans to "generate 1,000 additional 'Safe Haven' shelter beds, which are targeted specifically to the street homeless, in addition to expanding outreach to homeless people both aboveground and in the subways."
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Embarrassing after Amazon was offered $3 billion and Hudson Yards got $6 billion.
I say give all the homeless free apartments there. We already paid for them.
3 billion in tax breaks is different than being handed 3 billion. AOCs calculator runs on fake news.
'fake news' isn't a spell you can utter to make things you disagree with disappear
This is far less about helping those in need than it is about obscuring the destitute from the eyes of the wealthier public. Most of these folks are severely mentally ill and simply sticking them in an apartment isn’t a long term solution but at least it’s a start. If it actually happens. Plenty of vacant luxury apartments all around the city to house them, but better to build something cheap, in the outer boroughs, far from the main lines, to hide these folks whose existence represents the wealth poor gap which widens every day.
Then of course there’s the trustafarian crust punks. Curious to see what he does with those, though they tend to disappear annually once it gets cold.
It’s about running for office. He couldn’t care less about the homeless.
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