The Billion Dollar Homeless Scam (Greenfield)

[corbe]

The Billion Dollar Homeless Scam

The more we spend, the worse it gets.

August 16, 2018
 
Daniel Greenfield
 
New York City will be spending $2.06 billion on its Department of Homeless Services. There are 61,421 homeless people in the city which is spending $33,539 per homeless person. 

That’s only a little short of the starting salary of an FDNY firefighter at $39,000.

More money will be spent on the homeless than on the firefighters who save New Yorkers from burning buildings. The FDNY will have to make do with $2.04 billion, and the health department with $1.6 billion.

That’s impressive for DHS, a department that was only created in 1993 by the disgraced Dinkins administration and is now burning through more cash than agencies fulfilling actual vital city functions.

Two years ago, DHS had over 2,600 employees. That’s 1 employee to every 23 homeless people. Meanwhile 234 New Yorkers get only 1 police officer to serve and protect them from criminals.

Has this vast infusion of cash solved homelessness in the city? Nope.

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https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271045/billion-dollar-homeless-scam-daniel-greenfield

[goatprairie]

Look for that 61 thousand homeless number to quickly double after the usual suspects find out about the program.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Human nature is to drift toward the easy way out, and we have a lot of these folks in this country.

Where is JFK's famous inaugural saying?  I have not heard Democrats repeating it in decades.