Posted on 05/22/2019 11:35:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Housing shortages are plunging New York City and Los Angeles into crisis. Affordable rents are scarce. Families are doubling up. Shelters are jam-packed. And over 100,000 people are sleeping sprawled on the streets of these two cities. The waitlist for public housing is over four years long in LA and staggering 10 years in New York. These lists would be even longer if public officials hadn't closed them to any new applicants.
Nationwide, an estimated 32,000 public households are being taken up by illegal immigrants. It's a powerful reason why the Trump administration is giving illegals 18 months to get out of taxpayer-subsidized public housing.
"There is an affordable housing crisis in this country, and we need to make certain our scarce public resources help those who are legally entitled to it," explains Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is slamming the proposal, saying, "This is what cruelty looks like." Wrong, Mr. Mayor. Playing political games with people's lives is what's cruel. Only 1 out of every 4 Americans who qualifies for public housing is able to get it, Carson says, and "(F)airness requires that we devote ourselves to legal residents who have been waiting, some for many years."
But the Dems would rather pander to the pro-immigrant vote than look out for their own constituents. Democrats representing New York in Congress signed a letter opposing HUD's proposal of freeing up housing units for legal residents. Rep. Nydia Velazquez calls the policy "sickeningly cruel." These Congress members are double-crossing taxpayers and law-abiding families in their own districts who are struggling to make it.
In New York and other urban areas, millennials are putting off starting families because housing costs too much. It's a major reason the birthrate is dropping. But for illegals, having a baby here is their E-Z pass into taxpayer-funded public housing.
That's because 20 years ago, then-President Bill Clinton issued an informal "field" recommendation to loosen eligibility for welfare benefits without getting Congress's approval. Clinton dubbed illegal immigrants who have a baby born in the U.S. "mixed immigration status families" and made them eligible for public housing. As if the baby's the one signing the lease. The Trump administration is putting an end to this farce.
Dems are protesting that evicting illegals will mean separating parents from their American-born children. The theatrics are embarrassing. When illegals vacate public housing, they'll take their children with them.
On Tuesday, at a House hearing, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., dragged the political discussion to a new low, calling Carson "despicable," saying he will "rip apart families and be throwing children on the street." Carson calmly reminded Maloney that there are hundreds of thousands of children in need of decent housing whose parents are here legally. "Do you suggest that we prioritize" families breaking the law instead, he asked?
Carson exposed the hypocrisy of New York Democrats' bleeding-heart rhetoric about public housing. The de Blasio administration, he said, allowed conditions in public housing to deteriorate so badly that 83% of units pose health threats, with toxic lead paint, mold, broken elevators and no heat in winter. This January, HUD sent in a federal monitor to take over.
In many cities, Democratic politicians grandstand that they welcome illegals with open arms. These pols' magnanimity is at the expense of the very people who elect them, taxpayers and American families who depend on public schools, housing and other services. Place one newly arrived migrant child who speaks no English and has no school experience in a classroom and the bulk of a teacher's focus has to be on that one child. The other kids lose out.
So do federal taxpayers. Once migrants make it across the southern border and settle, they have more children, and their U.S.-born children collect welfare, food stamps and other benefits.
As 1 million illegals flood across the southern border this year, open-border Democrats need to be honest about the impact on affordable housing and quality of life. Sadly, Tuesday's hearing tells us not to count on it.
“Affordable rents are scarce”
Because the country is being flooded with legal AND illegal aliens and Rat county boards obstruct ANYONE who tries to build housing with insane permitting rules!!
Duhhhh….who could’ve predicted this outcome?
American children, veterans and the elderly are at the back of the line after illegal aliens...
Well, it’s a “contribution” at least.
Democrats showing what group matters to them.
The rest you mention, no impotence.
Typo.
Importance.
Fat finger incident.
Ya think? !!
300 illegals shipped to Murrieta Ca. Then they drop them off at the mall.
People that live there are pissed.
It will only be a matter of time before the Central Americans go to war with the Mexicans...on the streets of what used to be America.
Right-But the people who live there should remember their pro-immigration language leading up to this. IF they were silent... then they need to remember how they have been voting for the last several decades
There are 3,242 counites in total in the us 39,000/3,242 = 12...
I call BS on that because in SE Washington State we have Hispanic populations that in some areas exceed 70%. In my little city of 17,000 they, the Catholic Diocese, have built over 150 low income, read that as migrants, housing units alone. And they are always looking to build more
When border jumpers are coming in at 100,000 a month, soon they will be banging on you door and wanting to come in. The voters should lay this all on the doorstep of the Democrats. The Dems think they can keep Trump from fulfilling his border security promise and win in 2020. If I understand the situation, the American people will feel the effects of their sandbagging tactics and bury them in 2020.
30 million illegal aliens in this nation, and someone has just noticed that it might be impacting the ability of citizens to find decent housing in some markets.
Has the collective human IQ dropped by 50 points, or has mine simply gone up by 50?
Mureitta GA. I think they are sending them to red states on purpose on hopes to turn them blue.
I mistakenly opened the wrong motel room door to find a room with a dozen young brown men. !?!? Advised front desk just now. Not sure of next step.
Be careful. I’d advise you to consider the front desk is well aware of what is going on.
They probably get an elevated rate or payoff of some sort.
If you’re leaving, up your time table.
Let the police in on it. Don’t be too shocked if they know too.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.