Wealthy New Yorkers Fight To Keep Homeless Out Of Their Liberal Neighborhood

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Wealthy New Yorkers Fight To Keep Homeless Out Of Their Liberal Neighborhood

Posted By Peter Hasson On 3:01 PM 02/09/2018 In | No Comments

Wealthy New Yorkers are furious that Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to open a homeless shelter in their ritzy Manhattan neighborhood.

Dozens of wealthy residents packed into a community meeting to voice their anger over the decision to move 150 homeless men into the former Park Savoy Hotel, NY1 reports. The residents are concerned that the move will increase crime and decrease property values in their neighborhood on “billionaires row.”

 

URL to article: http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/09/wealthy-new-yorkers-fight-to-keep-homeless-out-of-their-liberal-neighborhood/

[goatprairie]

I hope their Marxist mayor forcibly sticks those homeless inside the homes of the wealthy libs who like nothing more than to virtue signal about loving humanity. Let's see them give a little love to those homeless people whom I'm sure are all upstanding citizens. 

[LMAO]

I’m not surprised by their reaction. In fact, I don’t blame them for not wanting homeless people in their neighborhood.

But, like the good progressives they are, this is another example of how they want to be exempt from policies that they “support” for the rest of us. Nothing tests people’s values as when those values have to be applied to themselves

[Applewood]

 I wonder how many of these wealthy people are social justice uber-liberal socialists who profess to care about the downtrodden, but don't want them in their own backyard. I'll bet they voted for de-Blah-Blah too.

My once respectable, safe middle class neighborhood has had an assortment of "undesirables" dumped on it over the years by do-good politicians.  High time for the wealthy hypocrites to put up with the dopers, mentally ill, sex offenders, illegals and refugees they say they care about.

[Oceander]

I can say with virtual certainty that these same NYC denizens are the ones who have been foisting the SJW bullshit on the rest of us, and are now having their own ox gored.  They’re nothing more than rank hypocrites. 

[The_Reader_David]

Back during the Reagan administration when the left was flogging homelessness as "proof" that Republican policies are inhumane, someone on our side did a study of homelessness rates in major cities, and found that with a single exception the top ten homelessness rates were in cities with some form of rent control, NYC leading among them. 

The one exception with Worcester, MA, where the homelessness problem had a different character (though it also involved government intervention in the housing market):  homelessness in Worcester was mostly due to families with children being excluded from renting in older housing stock due to the very costly form of lead paint remediation that Massachusetts mandated and landlords being able to find suitable tenants without children to whom renting would not require immediate lead paint remediation.

[dfwgator]

Send Comrade Kaprugina over....

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Time for DHS to dump some illegals to be their neighbors. 

That works for me.

[Cyber Liberty]

I can say with virtual certainty that these same NYC denizens are the ones who have been foisting the SJW bullshit on the rest of us, and are now having their own ox gored.  They’re nothing more than rank hypocrites.

I think they are just bigoted "homelessphobes," and they should be forced to accept them in their neighborhood.  What's good for wedding cakes is good for accommodations.  If bakers can be forced to bake the damned cake for gays, then rich homeowners should be forced to stop being bigots and accept their new neighbors.

[240B]

I think they are just bigoted "homelessphobes," and they should be forced to accept them in their neighborhood.  What's good for wedding cakes is good for accommodations.  If bakers can be forced to bake the damned cake for gays, then rich homeowners should be forced to stop being bigots and accept their new neighbors.

I think they are just bigoted "homelessphobes"

That is a very good policy. My experience with homeless people is that they are divided into specific categories, which overlap like a Venn diagram. And 90% of them are as dangerous as a rattlesnake. They may seem docile and cool for intermittent periods of time, but eventually they are going to bite you.

There are some legitimate 'regular people' who are legitimately homeless. But these guys normally take advantage of the plethora of programs available and will be relatively clean and straight. In fact, if they take advantage of all the State has to offer, you won't even know they are homeless by looking at them. However, these people are an extreme minority in the bulk of people who are designated as 'homeless'.

The majority of homeless people are on drugs, mentally challenged in one way or another, or they are hardcore felons on the run who have to stay 'off the grid'. All of these characteristics makes them very dangerous. I know how a lot of people want to 'help the homeless', but you should know what you are getting yourself into. Homeless people on the street don't want 'help'. They do not accept 'help'. What they want is cash.

If you start working with a homeless person in a shelter, the risk is still there but it is lessened. If you start engaging some random homeless person on the street, you have no idea the kind of hideous, heinous, shit they have done in their life to wind there. Rape, murder, child sex offender, aggravated robbery, etc. are all in play.

Never give a homeless guy your phone or your phone number. If they ever get your phone number, they never stop calling always for the same thing, money. Most homeless do not want 'services', or food, or clothing, or housing. What they want is strictly cash, so they can buy their next hit or their next bottle. And giving them money does not make them "like" you, any more than they like anybody who gives them money. Like a waiter/waitress they are 'nice' for tips, but that does not mean in any way that they will not rob you if they get a chance.

Never let a homeless person find out where you live. If they ever find out where you live, they will show up at any time of the day or night, sometimes with what they call friends. They always want money. Sometimes they want a place to stay, or booze, or cigarettes, or a ride somewhere, even if it is 3am. Homeless people have no time. They do not care what time it is. 3am to them is the same as 3pm. There is no difference to the homeless. Once in your home, all they are looking for is anything can steal that will sell easily at a pawn shop. They are not there to 'visit' you, or to say Hi. They are there for a reason. And that reason is to see what they can get. They look at 'bleeding hearts' as suckers who are ripe for the picking. And these guys will strip the tree of anything they can carry.

Fear of homeless people, especially homeless on the street, is a very valid reaction. Do not engage them. Never give them anything. And they will leave you alone. Once you start screwing around with them, or God Forbid try to 'make friends' with them, you put yourself on their radar as a mark. And that can only go badly for you.

[Cyber Liberty]

I thought my /sarc tag was obvious....

[goatprairie]

Back during the Reagan administration when the left was flogging homelessness as "proof" that Republican policies are inhumane, someone on our side did a study of homelessness rates in major cities, and found that with a single exception the top ten homelessness rates were in cities with some form of rent control, NYC leading among them. 

The one exception with Worcester, MA, where the homelessness problem had a different character (though it also involved government intervention in the housing market):  homelessness in Worcester was mostly due to families with children being excluded from renting in older housing stock due to the very costly form of lead paint remediation that Massachusetts mandated and landlords being able to find suitable tenants without children to whom renting would not require immediate lead paint remediation.

You might remember Mitch Schneider the homeless advocate from the nineties.  He became very popular in the media as a spokesman for all the "millions" of homeless supposedly wandering around American cities.  He claimed there was 
about two and one half million homeless in the country.
Well, some inquisitive person, whose name I can't recall, did an actual analysis of the  number of homeless. The figure he arrived at was one tenth or one fifteenth of what Schneider claimed. Schneider couldn't refute the person's analysis. He, Schneider, eventually (and unfortunately) committed suicide.
But even if you accepted Schneider's numbers, the total number of homeless was about one percent of the population. The hysteria generated by Big Media makes it seem like the homeless number is in the tens of millions when it's only, at most, one percent of the population.