NYC Exports Homeless Across Country Without Telling Receiving Cities

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Katherine Rodriguez 27 Oct 2019

New York City is spreading its homeless crisis across the nation by quietly sending homeless people to other cities in the U.S., all without giving the receiving cities a heads up.

The city has deployed local homeless families to 373 cities across the U.S.— from Honolulu to Louisiana— with a year’s worth of rent as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “Special One-Time Assistance Program,” without alerting local officials in those cities, the New York Post reported.

The Post reported that city taxpayers spent $89 million on rent to ship 5,074 homeless families—or 12,482 individuals— out of the city since the program started in August 2017.

The families, initially housed in the city’s shelters, were sent to 32 states and far-flung locales such as Puerto Rico.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/27/nyc-exports-homeless-across-country-without-telling-receiving-cities/

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The Department of Homeless Services defended the high costs of the program, saying that housing the homeless in city-run shelters costs $41,000 per family per year compared with the average yearly rent of $17,563 to transplant families elsewhere.

 

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[Smokin Joe]

Denver was supposed to have pulled this crap during the oil boom up this way, shipping them out with a 1-way bus ticket. Shelters here were overloaded, and these people didn't have a car to sleep in, in a winter climate that kills.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

For $17,000 I'll promise not to move to NYC.