Mayor De Blasio quietly dumping NYC’s homeless on other cities

American Thinker ^ | 06/26/2019 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

So much for “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” as far as New Yok Mayor Bill de Blasio is concerned. He is willing to put a year’s rent (in another city) to be rid of homeless people currently inhabiting New York City. In a bombshell port from Real Clear Investigations, Max Diamond exposes the dumping strategy of the erstwhile champion of the poor.

New York City has a distinctive way of dealing with the homeless: pay for them to live pretty much anywhere in the country.

Since 2014, Mayor De Blasio’s administration has used a program called Special One-Time Assistance to relocate nearly 10,000 homeless people to over 300 cities. The program – which directly pays landlords a year of rent upfront, free to the beneficiary – is a significant departure from past city homeless relocation efforts because it does not require participants to have strong community ties to the new destination.

Under the program, which comes as homelessness is rising not just in New York but in other major cities, NYC’s homeless have moved as far away as Orlando, Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Birmingham, Ala.

Get thee to Orlando

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It does look a lot like NYC and de Blasio consider these people to be “undesirables.”

So much for “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” as far as New Yok Mayor Bill de Blasio is concerned. He is willing to put a year’s rent (in another city) to be rid of homeless people currently inhabiting New York City. In a bombshell port from Real Clear Investigations, Max Diamond exposes the dumping strategy of the erstwhile champion of the poor.

[SeekAndFind]

BOTTOM LINE:

New York City has a distinctive way of dealing with the homeless: pay for them to live pretty much anywhere in the country.

[butlerweave]

Dem controlled cites , where homeless go to die

[mplc51]

GOOD QUESTION FOR HIM AT THE DEBATES TONIGHT.

[mewzilla]

Where have they been. From LAST YEAR...

Officials want NYC to stop sending homeless people to Upstate NY

[circlecity]

"The program – which directly pays landlords a year of rent upfront, free to the beneficiary"

I can just imagine what condition these places will be in at the end of that year.

[Tanniker Smith]

One-way bus tickets?

[Roccus]

Now we know where that money he gave his wife went.

[outpostinmass2]

New York City has a distinctive way of dealing with the homeless: pay for them to live pretty much anywhere in the country.

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Most of the homeless in NYC are transients from outside the city.

[Roccus]

New York City has a distinctive way of dealing with the homeless: pay for them to live pretty much anywhere in the country.

Makes sense since most of 'em prolly came from somewhere else anyway.

[pepsionice]

Couldn’t we go and build a fake city in New Mexico, and just start sending all of these folks via a bus....to the fake city? The entire population of homeless folks in America....sent to one city?

[Roccus]

BUT....But...but...if they’re in New York, they MUST be New Yorkers.

GMTA

[ronnie raygun]

the homeless don’t vote, the illegals will after they get their stipend of social programs and free sh##

[IC Ken]

In the 70’s when there were a lot of homeless in mental institutions (remember them). New York gave them a 0ne way ticket to California.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Might not NYC residents wonder why that “year’s rent” money is not being used for NYC purposes, like...I don’t know...road repair? Snow removal equipment upgrades?

[SMARTY]

I thought he invited them.

[Vigilanteman]

To be fair, other cities send these people to places like New York and Los Angeles. They call it Greyhound therapy.

My former hometown (Fargo, Dakota Territory) had a minor problem with this even though there was ample shelter space. The derelicts just didn't want to follow basic rules like leaving their booze and drugs behind when they reported in for the night.

However, the problem was strictly seasonal, April to October. By the time late October rolled around, the area they frequented was suddenly vacant. Nobody seemed to know why or how but we did have a saying the 40 below drove the riff-raff out.

[rxsid]

""The program – which directly pays landlords a year of rent upfront, free to the beneficiary" "

I can just imagine what condition these places will be in at the end of that year.

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Not only that, but when the 1 year of pre-paid rent runs out, the person undoubtedly still doesn't have a job and must be evicted, which costs the landlord money...sometimes, a lot of money.

The property owner/landlord should not accept them in the first place "(on the basis of no job, low credit score, etc.) [1]".

[marktwain]

DeBlasio is not smart enough to have figured this out.

Bet the policy was in place long before him.

[PapaBear3625]

One-way bus tickets?

I'd heard that, decades ago down South, some towns had a welfare program that consisted of a one-way bus ticket to NYC.

[donozark]

Greyhound therapy. Various PD’s have practiced this for years.