I’m more concerned about the Bates Motel. One old, unfortunate incident shouldn’t take them out of the running.
Posted on 01/23/2024 3:16:58 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has inked a new emergency $76.69 million contract with the Hotel Association of New York City to provide “last resort” shelter to migrant families
Fifteen hotels in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx will make blocks of rooms available to asylum-seeking families for up to 28 days under the “vouchering program” running through July.
“We’re not going to allow a child or family to sleep on the street,” Adams said during a press briefing Tuesday.
The migrant crisis has been a boon to the hotel industry still emerging from loss of business during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Post reported in September that the city extended contracts with the hotel association for three years at a staggering price tag of $1.3 billion — nearly five times the original $275 million deal — just to pay rental fees to more than 100 hotels that were converted into emergency shelters.
There are currently 493 households receiving shelter under the program administered by the city Department of Housing and Preservation Development (HPD).
“The City has made managing the costs of the asylum seeker crisis a priority, so we worked with them to ensure the costs and commitments of housing newcomers in our hotels were as low as possible,” said Vijay Dandapani, president and CEO of the Hotel Association of New York City (HANYC).
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Libtards don’t mind and ask for higher taxes to help out their buddies
Is there any chance they’ll have rooms for homeless VETs? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
That’s over $155k per household. Good work if you can get it.
You mean there are no homeless people in NYC?
Trump should fill the bottom floors of his hotels in NYC with concrete. Elevator shafts too. Give government more of what it demands.
Imagine what that will do to tourism in NY when the hotels are filled with vagrants and illegals.
The Great Replacement = The Great Reset
-fJRoberts-
...at a staggering price tag of $1.3 billion...there are currently 493 households receiving shelter under the program
So $1.3 billion for three years, is $433 million a year. For 493 households, that’s $987,000 per household. Something doesn’t add up. You could buy them all homes for 1/3 that price. I must be missing something.
Is Motel 6 getting their fair share?
Yeah....Pols lining their pockets.
The pols are converting desperate, cash strapped NYC tourist infrastructure into housing for illegal aliens to replace the lost tourist trade.
The Illegals are in the process of destroying the hotels so they will never be able to be used as tourist accommodations again unless that are completely re built. In fact, since many NYC hotels are ruined for actual guest accommodations, they are becoming activist lobbyists for illegals since their only revenue generating option is to house illegals in ruined hotel rooms at inflated government subsidized $300+ per night daily rates.
The same thing as happened to a lot of California hotels and motels
illegal aliens get free hotels, homeless us citizens get nothing.
Those will be rooms that can never be rented again.
Not without major renovation.
RE: We’re not going to allow a child or family to sleep on the street,” Adams said during a press briefing Tuesday.
Unless they are a homeless veteran.
To be fair, great strides made in NY over this problem:
“In 2011, New York City accounted for 81% of all homeless veterans in the state. By 2022, New York City’s share of homeless veterans was reduced to 49%.”
Office of the New York State Comptroller.gov
I’m more concerned about the Bates Motel. One old, unfortunate incident shouldn’t take them out of the running.
How many AMERCIAN CITIZENS have slept on the streets of NYC over the years? Families, children, whatever. Suddenly it's a crisis when ILLEGAL INVADERS have to do it.
Sickening. *spit*
Fudged numbers. Where did they ship the homeless veterans to? Upstate NY? That would lower NYC numbers.
Eleven years span with "pandemic" years. If many homeless veterans passed away, the percentage would be lower.
They illegally crossed the border to have American taxpayers provide them with a better life. Much better.
All true. We should not forget these people and their service.
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