Posted on 08/09/2020 11:07:12 AM PDT by Mount Athos
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday revealed a plan to buy properties around the city and turn them into permanent affordable housing, after moving more than 10,000 homeless people into hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic and shaming rich residents who have left the city as 'fair weather friends'.
The homeless-in-hotels scheme set up by de Blasio is one of many components to an escalating downward change in the city.
Many of New York's wealthy residents fled months ago - taking their disposable income and their tax dollars with them - and there are fears they may never come back.
Crime is on the up but de Blasio has stripped the police force of $1billion in response to Black Lives Matter protests.
Some retailers and restaurants have been forced to close permanently and those who are hanging on face continuously changing and difficult rules.
Earlier this year, it emerged that 139 struggling hotels are taking in homeless people to avoid deathly COVID-19 breakouts in shelters.
Through the program, they take $175 per person, per night which - with more than 13,000 homeless currently being housed in hotels - is more than $2.275million, according to anonymous city sources who have been quoted since May.
'Our community is terrified, angry and frightened,' one organizer of the 1,700 member group, Dr. Megan Martin, told The Post.
Local parents are particularly concerned with the ten registered sex offenders that have been accommodated in the Belleclaire as of Thursday, according to the state sex offender registry.
Local residents have reported seeing fights, have been verbally abused or harassed, seen people spitting - despite the ongoing pandemic - and have also seen people looking for, or using drugs.
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deBlasio acts as though he is purposely ruining New York.
Why? I don’t quite know.
Maybe he is exacting some kind of revenge against his own constituents for not embracing even Socialist platforms.
He won’t need that much money. He’ll just condemn the buildings that he wants and use them for public good. Too bad if you have a $2,000,000 condo. It’s now worth 50 grand. Take it or leave without it.
sounds good until you think about it and there in lies the problem.
Another dik-tater of another new banana republic.
A person being housed in a hotel at no cost to himself is not “homeless.”
This is a preview of what the democrats would do if they had the chance. Create a massive, growing, permanent class of freeloaders who will NEVER become productive; tax the last cent out of the individuals who actually work productively, and whose money is taken to pay for the hotels.
They really would do this. di blobio is more communist than Maduro.
Future meth labs.
I’ve had the pleasure of being insulted and demeaned by pompous New York City liberals in the past. Well guys - this is what you voted for, enjoy it.
I just wish we could fence this zoo in and prevent all those wealthy Progressive a-holes from moving out and spreading their dangerous ideological filth throughout the nation.
After serving one term as public advocate, he was elected mayor of New York City in 2013 and reelected in 2017.
If De Blasio and Como wanted to kill NYC, if that was their goal, they could hardly do better than they have in the last eight months. And these people have so little self-awareness they call Trump incompetent!
He’s as crazy as Peeloosley!! Since we have so many that are afraid to expose them for the loons they are I guess the voting booth is the only way left to get rid of them.....and that’s sketchy in todays society with the fraud they’re going to pull........shameful
He would win an election in a landslide
“Has it occurred to this fool that there is only so much money in the world, especially when hes chasing all of the taxpayers out of NYC”?
He doesn’t care. Besides, his friends will be the sellers. His friends will make millions and he’ll receive a nice cut from each sale.
You say 175 per night, but after all the kickbacks, it’s a lot less.
In the 2013 municipal election only 27% of the registered electorate voted.
He cares now. His friends will be the sellers. His friends will make millions and hell receive a nice cut from each sale.
New Yorkers entered voting booths and cast ballots for this guy. They are as much to blame as he is - enjoy the reward for stupidity.
California did this... and they thrashed the hotels.
So these hotels will become homes??? good god. Congrats NYC voters. This is your mess. You voted for this fool.
Dear NYC, This what happens when you elect a Communist to be mayor of your city. Take notes for future reference.
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