NYC fights to end hotel program for Sandy evacuees

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[Java4Jay]

About 350 homeless Superstorm Sandy evacuees who have been sleeping in New York City-funded hotel rooms for nearly a year may be forced to check out for good.

The city has spent $70 million to house more than 3,000 refugees since the storm hit last October, officials said. Each room costs about $266 per night.

[Java4Jay]

Total mismanagement

[TexasFreeper2009]

266 a night!?!?!

what the heck! no motel 6’s were available for these leaches!?

[C210N]

We need to leave the light off for these leeches...

[DBrow]

70,000,000 is probably enough to restore 300 homes or build 140 brand new ones.

[genghis]

mismanagement??
heck why care about how you spend someone else’s money??
this is not mismanagement this is insanity. people should be put in some hole somewhere.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The NOLA Katrina people, NOT the Biloxi ones, got free hotel rooms until RECENTLY, not to mention strippers, liquor, food, etc., etc.

[ClaytonP]

$266/night x 365 = $97,000

Pure corruption on the part of whichever hotel owners had the in with the government.

[logitech]

They will suck the freebies until there are no more.

As we know.

[Mark]

All staying at the Bloomberg Hotel?

[MaxMax]

Seventy Million. Incredible insanity.

[Gaffer]

Honestly? It would not surprise me one iota if there were still Hurricane Katrina victims doing the same thing, and STILL living on the government’s bill.

[grania]

They could've been bought houses in poor areas in NJ and PA and brought into the city for work as necessary. It was an opportunity lost to refurbish some urban areas. This is yet another example of how government management has lost the ability to problem solve.

If first hit me how bad problem-solving skill has become during Katrina. McDonald's and some other food chains could've fed those people if put in charge.

[texas booster]

I would bet that the “prevailing wages” law was used to create such a payment system.

I think that GSA rates for the area are lower, so some type of services (cleaning, pools etc) may have been included.

Or we could just recognize that this city works best when two people can hand shake deals, with no oversight.

[kearnyirish2]

“The NOLA Katrina people, NOT the Biloxi ones, got free hotel rooms until RECENTLY, not to mention strippers, liquor, food, etc., etc.”

That’s incredible, especially when you consider that unlike the Sandy people, the NOLA people were never going back to their former homes (they will never be rebuilt).