New York seeks 14,000 hotel rooms for immigrants as bill to house them hits $2.3bn
New York seeks 14,000 hotel rooms for immigrants as bill to house them hits $2.3bn
City warned it cannot keep using taxpayers’ money to fund its extensive property network
Only $162,000 per room yearly or $13,700 per month. What a bargain! Looks like their math is off though. At $352 per night x 14k rooms, they're about $500 million short of $2.3B but maybe that's bribery money that isn't counted toward housing these people.
According to Google, there are plenty of rooms at $100-$200 per night so why are they spending so much? Classic government 'assistance' where they make a big show of passing legislation and then barely any of the money alloted actually winds up where it's supposed to and instead winds up in the pockets of some contracting company.
It'd the telegraph. A Murdoch owned right wing rag that is just ginning up hate for immigrants in any way possible. I'd expect most of the article is made up.
Any idea what kind of an organization you would need to coordinate this kind of operation. Most likely the cost mentioned is the "all in" price for the whole ordeal surrounding these people.
This is what small government means. Not enough preparation to actually adress a foreseeable situation and then having to spend excessive amounts of public money on private enterprises.
If the state would have spent a billion on building housing for these people and another billion on affordable housing and infra.. it would have been a structural solution after year 1.. but never would have been financed by the lawmakers.
This is spoken as someone who thinks they know something about NYC.
First off this article is actually about NYC, not the state of NY.
NYC is WILDLY blue. And NYC is WILDLY complicated and huge from a government perspective. It's so fucking large that the departments that are supposed to deal with specific policy/law can't even advise you on any of it. Then a week later you'll get a fine.
Literally everything you think you said about NYS... is opposite because it's NYC.
An unused-since-the-pandemic office building sold in midtown for $8M. If this fucking incompetent govt had any sense whatsoever, they would buy one of those unused office spaces and convert it into a mid/high rise shelter. They would save a lot of money but even more people. But they don’t want to think this is permanent. But this is is only getting started, when the global south really starts ramping up its uninhabitability, we will need to get way more creative.
Office buildings are not built for housing, it's often very expensive to convert them.
(More plumbing requirements, legal requirements for natural light etc)
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Damn and here I am paying my taxes like an idiot while I struggle to have a roof over my head.
And all these people did was spend months walking thousands of miles through inhospitable jungle, past deadly cartels and into the U.S. by Coyotes they hoped wouldn't murder them, get shipped to New York by Texas and end up there in the winter. All for the crime of avoiding being murdered in their home country too.
But I'm sure you have it super hard.
Squid I love to replying to your idiot lemmycrat takes. I am not against being charitable, hell my faith requires taking care of my neighbors especially when they at the border asking for assistance. With that said who is supposed to pay this bill? And if Biden who allows and supports this status quo won’t give federal funds, like who is supposed to pay for this? Cause it sounds like you midwestern folk got alot to say about a place you don’t even visit and contribute nothing to. Like squid what was last dollar you spent in Metro NY?