The media sometimes does a sob story on a homeless family of 4 living in their car, or in a shelter. The government spends $320,000 on that family.
Note to the other 49...
Yuk it up, but Albany will have the last laugh if Albany gets Congress to stick you with the bill.
NYCriminal co-conspirators.
$81,700 per unsheltered person
I could live high on the hog
Wow when they show up here our sheriff puts them in a car and drives them to Sante Fe (about 5 hours away) and hands them $10.
It’s amazing how few you have when you have no shelters, no charities, and no money for them.
Also local Apache who beat the crap out of them if they come back.
If they sleep in the woods (camping without permit) they go to jail or freeze and get eaten by whatever. This also works.
Sounds like a job for Nick Shirley. Ferret out what agencies are “helping” the homeless and what cars they are driving.
I suggest that this article misses the truth, because they money is being sucked up by Democrats, and the money never goes towards the homeless at all.
Grifters are getting rich.
I wonder how much actually trickles down to the homeless after all the city bureaucrats skim off their cut?
It’s grift for politicians and their “non-profit” pals to pocket money that isn’t tracked. Each bum is not getting $81k or even an equivalent per year there. Maybe half but probably not even that.
NYC spends $81,000 per person on their Homeless, yet a TSA Agent used to be paid $66,000. Chuck Schumer can go to h*ll.
A buddy in SFico has referred to the “homeless industrial complex” there for years. I’d be surprised if NYC’s were not similarly formidable. Nick Shirley should take a hard look. There is probably as much fraud opportunity as with day care and hospice care.
The whole country should send the homeless there.
They treat them great!
“spending on services for the unsheltered jumped 262%, from $102 million to nearly $368 million. That works out to roughly $81,700 per unsheltered person in FY 2025”
Subsidize something and you will get more of it. But I don’t think Mamdani and cohorts can figure that out.
Must point out most of that money does not actually go to the homeless person.
We can assume that at least half of the “homeless” expense is gobbled up by numerous administrative expenses.
The consultant nonprofits recommending which tents should be provided to the homeless absorb 2/3 of the tent expenditures.
Taxpayers paying for those who won’t work.....IOW:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”
_Karl Marx in his 1875
It’s a scam someone is filling their pockets and it’s not the homeless
The fallacy is that the city is spending the money ON the homeless person. Its spending the money ON generous bureaucrat salaries and homeless NGO contracts. Probably 5% or 10% of the payment actually makes it to the homeless person, if that.