NYC secretly exports thousands of homeless to other states
Oct 29, 2019 13:06:00 #
How pathetic and hypocritical can the Democrats and their supporters get !
NYC secretly exports thousands of homeless to other states
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lacortenews.com
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18 hours ago
Since Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Special One-Time Assistance Program" (SOTA) started in August 2017, New York City has sent more than 12,000 homeless people to other states, without telling the receiving cities.
The program provides the homeless with a full year of rent to live elsewhere, although the city to which they are sent is usually not informed. The city has relocated homeless families to 373 other cities. Taxpayers spent $89 million on rent to move 5,074 homeless families (12,482 individuals) out of the city since the program started. The city also paid travel expenses through a separate taxpayer-funded program called "Project Reconnect," but would not reveal how much it spent, the New York Post reported.
“We were initially seeing a lot of complaints about the conditions. Now that the program has been in operation long enough that the SOTA subsidy is expiring, one of our main concerns is it might not be realistic for people to be entirely self-sufficient after that first year,” said Jacquelyn Simone, a policy analyst at Coalition for the Homeless.
About 56 percent of the families move out of the state, costing the city an average of $15,600 in annual rent. Thirty-five percent move within city limits with an average rent of $20,500 and 9 percent move elsewhere in New York state, costing approximately $17,900.
“So in other words, if someone is in a shelter, y’all will give them money to go somewhere else if they have been there for 90 days? And some of those people have been sent to Metairie?” said Michael Yenni, president of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, when he found out the community is among the SOTA destinations. “I’m not in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s shoes. I don’t sit behind his desk, and I never will, but it’s certainly interesting. You have shocked me down here in beautiful southeast Louisiana.”
The mayor of Willacoochee, Georgia, was also stunned. “I’m not familiar with none of that,” Samuel Newson said. Newark city spokesman Mark Di Ionno said that the city, which has 1,198 families who are part of the program, is “in the process of passing an ordinance to ban New York from sending us SOTA clients.”
Department of Homeland Security spokesman Isaac McGinn said the city “remains committed to using every tool at our disposal to help these families and individuals find stability in the ways that work for them.”
“Any American, including any New Yorker experiencing homelessness, has the right to seek housing where they can afford it and employment where they can find it.”
NYC secretly exports thousands of homeless to other states
By
lacortenews.com
•
18 hours ago
Since Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Special One-Time Assistance Program" (SOTA) started in August 2017, New York City has sent more than 12,000 homeless people to other states, without telling the receiving cities.
The program provides the homeless with a full year of rent to live elsewhere, although the city to which they are sent is usually not informed. The city has relocated homeless families to 373 other cities. Taxpayers spent $89 million on rent to move 5,074 homeless families (12,482 individuals) out of the city since the program started. The city also paid travel expenses through a separate taxpayer-funded program called "Project Reconnect," but would not reveal how much it spent, the New York Post reported.
“We were initially seeing a lot of complaints about the conditions. Now that the program has been in operation long enough that the SOTA subsidy is expiring, one of our main concerns is it might not be realistic for people to be entirely self-sufficient after that first year,” said Jacquelyn Simone, a policy analyst at Coalition for the Homeless.
About 56 percent of the families move out of the state, costing the city an average of $15,600 in annual rent. Thirty-five percent move within city limits with an average rent of $20,500 and 9 percent move elsewhere in New York state, costing approximately $17,900.
“So in other words, if someone is in a shelter, y’all will give them money to go somewhere else if they have been there for 90 days? And some of those people have been sent to Metairie?” said Michael Yenni, president of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, when he found out the community is among the SOTA destinations. “I’m not in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s shoes. I don’t sit behind his desk, and I never will, but it’s certainly interesting. You have shocked me down here in beautiful southeast Louisiana.”
The mayor of Willacoochee, Georgia, was also stunned. “I’m not familiar with none of that,” Samuel Newson said. Newark city spokesman Mark Di Ionno said that the city, which has 1,198 families who are part of the program, is “in the process of passing an ordinance to ban New York from sending us SOTA clients.”
Department of Homeland Security spokesman Isaac McGinn said the city “remains committed to using every tool at our disposal to help these families and individuals find stability in the ways that work for them.”
“Any American, including any New Yorker experiencing homelessness, has the right to seek housing where they can afford it and employment where they can find it.”
Oct 29, 2019 13:15:17 #
4430 wrote:
How pathetic and hypocritical can the Democrats an... (show quote)
Remember when they got in trouble for exporting their garbage? I wonder what happened with that.
Oct 29, 2019 14:45:14 #
Oct 29, 2019 14:54:39 #
The county I live in...El Dorado Co, Placerville was busted taking homeless people down to downtown Sacramento, I'm not sure if it was the police or sheriff's department, or who's orders that was on. They try to fill the fails with homeless people for minor infractions like open container on the sidewalk. The city wants the funds for the prison.
El Dorado is a solidly republican controlled county.
El Dorado is a solidly republican controlled county.
Oct 30, 2019 13:07:19 #
woodguru wrote:
The county I live in...El Dorado Co, Placerville was busted taking homeless people down to downtown Sacramento, I'm not sure if it was the police or sheriff's department, or who's orders that was on. They try to fill the fails with homeless people for minor infractions like open container on the sidewalk. The city wants the funds for the prison.
El Dorado is a solidly republican controlled county.
El Dorado is a solidly republican controlled county.
hahahahahaha
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