Posted on 09/16/2009 7:03:05 AM PDT by george76
The number of homeless families living in motels funded by the state now tops more than 1,000, a dramatic 37 percent increase since June 1, ...
at a monthly cost of about $2.8 million for taxpayers.
The recession, high unemployment, and continuing foreclosure crisis are forcing more families to seek help. The state has been placing families in motels since 2007, when the 2,000 rooms in the homeless shelter system reached capacity.
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The insanity of socialism. Thank you taxpayers.
Wouldn't that make them NOT homeless?
Would it not be cheaper to rent an apartment?
The insanity is paying the market rate for a motel room and finding out there is a crack whore and her daughter in the room next to you.
Last year in Georgia we were treated to that. She was outside the room on her phone constantly when not conducting ‘business’. When she was conducting business, her 10-11 year old daughter was out on the sidewalk.
From the traffic in and out we thought she was dealing drugs initially, then we figured out the ‘customers’ were staying too long for a drug deal.
I was forced to spend a week one night in Onset, MA during the winter of 2000. There were several welfare families (homeless?) billeted there.
Traffic suddenly increasing?
ACORN’s illegal aliens?
Obamanomics spin: “Motel Occupancy UP - Recession Over”....
Nope, all home grown people of color.
Can someone tell me were I might be able track down a list of hotels accepting the homeless?
Not sure.
I see residence motel places here in Indiana advertised for 170 a week.
They have cut rates because of the Baraqqi recession.
pretty similar to low end apartment rents
Motels must be willing to accept Section 8 funds. Maid service is usually curtailed to once a week.
Bedbugs, roaches, high crime rates, violence, etc are included.
$2.8 million for 1,400 families a month, that’s about $500.00 a week per family...
Wow.
The ACORN management fees must be huge.
It might be cheaper but as an apartment manager I won't rent to anyone that doesn't pass a credit/ background check. They might not qualify.
That is an interesting point but wouldn
t it be the government renting the apartment not the homeless person.
Massachusetts, lol.
Well, he SAID he doesn't rent to parties that can't pass a credit/background check. That leaves the scumbag government out, I guess.
Not at the community I manage. The lease has to be in the names of the people occupying the apartment. We do criminal and credit background checks on all occupants 18 and older. All occupants must be approved based on the background check. Even if one would be approved but the second wouldn’t I don’t rent to either.
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