Posted on 09/15/2022 7:10:49 PM PDT by conservative98
What’s the carrying capacity of Martha’s Vineyard?
We found ourselves asking this question on Thursday when the island off Cape Cod announced that it was experiencing a “humanitarian crisis” after 50 people arrived there seeking shelter. These were reportedly migrants, some of whom may be refugees from Venezuela’s communist dictatorship, who had reportedly been flown up to Martha’s Vineyard on a plane sent to pick them up from Texas by Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis.
The island’s officials announced that its residents, towns, and “community-based, non-profit” groups had sprung into action to provide food, shelter, health care, and other amenities to the new arrivals. They noted that two “emergency shelters” had been established “in case further arrivals occur.”
So how much capacity does Martha’s Vineyard have to shelter refugees? Census data reports that there are around 17,000 year-long residents and around 14,600 homes on the island. Let’s estimate that each home has four bedrooms and each bedroom can comfortably sleep three people. This would bring the island’s sleep capacity up to 175,200 beds, and 158,200 would be unoccupied.
If anything, this likely underestimates the sleeping capacity of the island. During the summer months, the island is said to regularly house 200,000 people at a time. If you really packed people in, allowing for sleeping in living rooms and libraries and dining rooms and studies, you could easily house 400,000.
Of course, there’s a lot of available land in Martha’s Vineyard that could be converted into housing for refugees. With the current population, there are about 194 people per square mile. That is around the population density of Indiana, Georgia, or North Carolina. If we were to raise the density to that of Washington, DC, which has 11,295 people per square mile, we could fit nearly a million newcomers.
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How many immigrants can sleep in Obama’s mansion?
Stand on Zanzibar.
Manhattan has a water system that drains an area of the Adirondacks about the size of Massachusetts. MV is water-rich, but even so, it could never support six million people without a destalinization plant.
However, if 50 private jets flew in from Davos with tycoons holding platinum American Express cards, they could easily find accommodations and dine sumptuously.
It’s a good idea. Even better, yet as woke communities are abandoning historical zoning laws as contrary to equity, ‘The Island’ zoning laws should be overwritten to require this as well. It’s likely that even more of these ‘Biden Invited’ illegals can be accommodated there.
In fact, it’s time for The Island’s citizens to start a permanent daily charter jet from Eagle Pass to Martha’s Viniard. There’s no reason these poor immigrants should be forced to stay in the desert heat for one more day!
Biden and Martha Stewart alone could love like they intimate to.
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