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Breitbart Business Digest: Martha’s Vineyard Could House Six Million Refugees
Breitbart ^ | 15 Sep 2022 | JOHN CARNEY

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: haven; keithchatinover; marthasvineyard
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'That would still leave plenty of room on the island. Manhattan has 69,648 people per square mile. By our calculations, that leaves Martha’s Vineyard with room for six million refugees.'
1 posted on 09/15/2022 7:10:49 PM PDT by conservative98
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1/x Kudos to ⁦@GovRonDeSantis⁩ for sending illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard.

When I proposed the same last year, the elected leadership welcomed it:

County commissioner Keith Chatinover: “I would LOVE Martha’s Vineyard to become a haven…” https://t.co/R1FyL5URCJ— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 15, 2022


2 posted on 09/15/2022 7:11:17 PM PDT by conservative98
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50 people is a family picnic. They’ve already said no more donations...send cash...


3 posted on 09/15/2022 7:14:20 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: conservative98

Originally thought this was from the Bee!


4 posted on 09/15/2022 7:34:34 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: Sacajaweau

LOCAL Red Cross is refusing to help them.


5 posted on 09/15/2022 7:37:53 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Sacajaweau

Not all MS-13 CLUB MEMBERS are MURDERERS!


6 posted on 09/15/2022 7:39:34 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: ridesthemiles

Sounds like pure politics to me...


7 posted on 09/15/2022 7:40:23 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Sacajaweau

And?


8 posted on 09/15/2022 8:05:58 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Sacajaweau

You can hear the background noise....get them the hell out of here...signed...BO


9 posted on 09/15/2022 8:07:39 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: conservative98

Good calculations.


10 posted on 09/15/2022 8:08:04 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: conservative98

Six million, eh?

The Masschists might need to build a crematorium or two.

/s


11 posted on 09/15/2022 8:11:12 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ridesthemiles

Red Cross prefers to “help” those who are billable.


12 posted on 09/15/2022 8:11:58 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: conservative98

I think another 4-5000 would be a good test of this theory and should push some people to the breaking point.


13 posted on 09/15/2022 8:34:59 PM PDT by bigbob (z)
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To: ridesthemiles

Contrary to what they would have you believe, the Red Cross is NOT a charity or charitable organization. It is a profit driven business hiding behind the “charity” label.


14 posted on 09/15/2022 8:39:14 PM PDT by Qui is (First, never apologize to the enemy, and second, never forget that Biden spews and Harris swallows. )
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To: Sacajaweau

50 could comfortably hang out at Obama’s place.


15 posted on 09/15/2022 9:00:07 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: conservative98

How many beds and baths in the Obama mansion? Enough for at least a bus load.


16 posted on 09/15/2022 9:05:27 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: conservative98

Manhattan has high rise buildings.


17 posted on 09/15/2022 9:09:16 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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18 posted on 09/15/2022 9:11:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Martha’s Vineyard has a LOT of rental vacancies since the summer season ended Labor Day. Fill them all, every last one of them.


19 posted on 09/15/2022 9:16:36 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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That’s right. And I’m sure there are plenty of little bed & breakfast places and quaint little inns and of course, lots of beautiful private homes, so richly appointed , nice lawns, built in pools.

It’s paradise.


20 posted on 09/15/2022 10:32:31 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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