Junkies camp on sidewalks near Midtown 'drug corridor' as Cuomo denies de Blasio's claim he is blocking NYC from relocating 8,000 homeless people from hotels in the area where crime has surged more than 170%

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | June 17, 2021 | Melissa Koenig

[Cecily]

New York City officials are ready to move nearly 8,000 homeless residents out of some 60 hotels and back into congregate shelters, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday, as the city continues to see record-low COVID infections.

'It is time to move homeless folks who were in hotels for a temporary period of time back to shelters, where they can get the support they need,' de Blasio said at his daily press briefing.

'In shelters is where we can provide support, a variety of services and the pathway out of shelter and into a better life,' he said.

[Cecily]

I hope the rich libbies will remember their opposition to being forced to live in proximity to this class of people the next time they want lecture the middle and working classes who also don't want to be forced to live with this element in or adjacent to their neighborhoods.

[Alberta's Child]

What the article doesn’t tell you is that the homeless people were moved into the hotels simply to keep the hotels in business while their normal revenues from tourism and business travel plummeted.

[HandBasketHell]

And every single one of these rich people voted Democrat.

Every. Single. One.

And every single one of them still thinks Trump is Hitler and smugly believe THEY are the compassionate ones.

Liberalism is a mental disease.

[Cecily]

That may be, but I still hope it taught the usual virtue signaling libbie suspects a lesson. Responsible, law-abiding people do not want to live with this element, and it is not uncompassionate to feel that way. It’s just common sense.

[DaBroasta]

Wow—didn’t see that one coming.

[ronnie raygun]

There ok with it as long as it isn’t near them and thy don’t have to see it or experience it, such compassion

[MissEdie]

Yep- you get what you vote for.

[David Chase]

When the homeless move out, will they be taking the cockroaches, and bedbugs with them?

I wouldn’t stay in those infested dumps for anything.

[P.O.E.]

Exactly. That’s why so many corporations have gone woke - to cozy up to government and its largesse.

[Clutch Martin]

“There ok with it as long as it isn’t near them and thy don’t have to see it or experience it...”

Oddly enough the same mindset has moved heavy industry offshore... let them pollute,

[avenir]

“In shelters is where we can provide support, a variety of services and the pathway out of shelter and into a better life,’ he said.”

Yeah, that’s the ticket!

[coloradan]

No! That's exactly the wrong thing to do! Just as in the matter of gun control and welfare programs, if crime rates are soaring because there are homeless people living amongst others in the city, it's because there aren't enough of them, and more homeless people should be housed there. After all, when crime rates soar in inner cities with gun control, it's because there isn't enough gun control, and when certain demographics are torn apart by welfare programs, it's because the benefits aren't generous enough. So, hopefully, they will see the error of their ways and put even more homeless people in these same hotels, and even expand the effort to neighboring hotels, that are currently underserving the homeless population.

[setter]

There are pics on the net of inside these hotels in San Francisco the homeless pooped in the hallways even though they had a bathroom.
I bet NY is no different.

[unread]

record-low COVID infections.??

[Jewbacca]

They’ll have the burn the hotels down.

Or nuke them from orbit. (Only way to be sure.)

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Exactly. The hotels ARE shelters, now. They can’t be worth anything.

[AndyJackson]

Yes, backlash against crime spree caused by deliberate actions of the politicians. My god. We couldn’t see that one coming. It’s like RINOs thinking the people would be grateful for getting the Orange man out of office by democrat hook or by democrat crook.

[dfwgator]

Screw ‘em, they voted for it. They need to embrace the suck that they voted for.

[USS Alaska]

'It is time to move homeless folks who were in hotels for a temporary period of time back to shelters, where they can get the support they need,' de Blasio said at his daily press briefing.

Those hotels will need to be gutted and re-built.

The filth and destruction is beyond belief, well not really.

[dsrtsage]

So, do hotels now require demolition?