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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I listen to “Mr. New York” Mark Simone in the morning. According to him, what’s lining up in the mayoral bullpen is even worse then Big Bird DeBlasio.
I’m quite willing to let him sink his personal wealth into this project. But there should be absolutely NO city, state for federal funds permitted to be used for his folly.
The Dems built “affordable” housing projects in Chicago and tore them down less than 4 decades later. How many times do Democrats have to do something before they learn it doesn’t work?
He has a point. They voted for the dirtbag politicians with their dirtbag politics and then get all surprised when they get dirtbag results?
They got what they asked for, and there's a lot more on the way.
I smell a scam to bail out a favored few from a crashing NYC real estate market, by having NYC buy their properties at above the real market valuation.
Hey, here’s a thought. Maybe government could just buy and run EVERYTHING. Funny how no one ever thought of that before.
He run for gov next
Painting a BLM mural outside Trump Tower is a step toward emptying buildings.
Yes, after liberals demanded it for "humanitarian" reasons.
I forgot to post the comments on Trip Advisor regarding these hotels-—
Here is the first comment for the Hotel Belleclaire-—
BEWARE
This hotel was converted into a homeless hotel. The hotel “guests” are homeless, and drug addicts. Reports of OD’s and bed bugs are public knowledge in NYC. Do not stay here. The dirt and filth are beyond tolerable. Either stay home or stay someplace else.
Why not let them just go back to the old finders-keepers squatters’ rights to give them abandoned buildings free?
In fact, I feel a show tune coming on in honor of antifa’s 2020 rampaging, from Bill DeBlasio’s Rent 2: “Seasons of Hate”.
and here are TRIPADVISOR comments on the Hotel Belnord-—
CLOSED! Now a homeless shelter
We’ve stayed here about 5 times, love the hotel and neighborhood feel. We were looking forward to coming back but my booking was cancelled without explanation and after doing some research it’s rented out as a city homeless shelter. I called and they confirmed. No word on refunds or reservations.
He would reelection in a landslide.
I’m guessing the definition of “empty buildings” includes the homes that are sitting empty because the rich boogied someplace else?
I have traveled to NYC for work, usually a week or less. Never found a reason to stay there.
Bring Your Money Back
(Sung to the tune of "Baby Come Back" by Player)
Spending all my sessions, all your taxes on my liberal schemes
Doing anything just to waste your taxes you paid
But when the election comes, I tell you your taxes were very well spent
And trying to tell me Im wrong is wasting your time
Bring your money back, any kind of fool could see
Its your income, that makes us say we love you
Bring your money back, we can blame it all on Trump
We are broke, and we just cant spend without you
All day long, were wearing our masks due to COVID-19
And Antifa rioters think that cover helps them just fine
But as the sun goes down, the Starbucks catches fire again
How I wish to Soros your cash belonged to me
Bring your money back, any kind of fool could see
Its your income, that makes us say we love you
Bring your money back, we can blame it all on Trump
We are broke, and we just cant spend without you
Now that New York is in the dumpster, oh oh
Give me the chance to make it worse
Have you paid tax on every cent you have earned?
Nothing left for me? Aint there nothing left for me?
Bring your money back, any kind of fool could see
Its your income, that makes us say we love you
Bring your money back, we can blame it all on Trump
We are broke, and we just cant spend without you
There is no limit.
Because ignoring history and the lessons it teaches is a basic tenet of Leftism.
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