Posted on 07/29/2009 5:05:24 PM PDT by FromLori
New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city.
It's part of a program by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration to keep the homeless out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family. More than 550 families have left the city since 2007. All it takes is for a relative to agree to take them in.
The city employs a travel agency for domestic travel and the Department of Homeless Services handles international travel.
City officials say there are no limits on where a family can be sent and families can reject the offer.
Families have been sent to 24 states and five continents, mostly to Puerto Rico, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
City officials say none of the relocated families have returned to city shelters.
Sweeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!
Send them all to Berkeley!!!!!!
send em to Martha’s Vineyard so their idol can give them free health care and a pair of shoes.
$36,000 per year per family???? What the hell are they providing them with?
“Families have been sent to 24 states and five continents, mostly to Puerto Rico, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. “
That Carolinas part is disturbing. We already have enough liberal transplants. No mas.
Diversity costs money; did I miss the flights to Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mexico, Haiti, Venezuela, Bolivia, etc....
Send them to Montgomery County, Maryland or Fairfax County, Virginia
I’d tell em I want the same deal the Uighurs got, being set up in a nice pad in Bermuda.
I’m going to move to NY and see if the socialists will give me a ticket to Tahiti.
Ok, since O is going to close Gitmo, send them there. Private rooms for every one, fenced grounds, lots of beach front, good fishing. What more could they want? Paradise!!!
This actually sounds like a good Idea. Gets certain homeless who have a family to help them out of new york and with their family members. I wish Washington was as resourceful.
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