Only $162,000 per room yearly or $13,700 per month. What a bargain! Looks like their math is off though. At $352 per night x 14k rooms, they’re about $500 million short of $2.3B but maybe that’s bribery money that isn’t counted toward housing these people.
According to Google, there are plenty of rooms at $100-$200 per night so why are they spending so much? Classic government ‘assistance’ where they make a big show of passing legislation and then barely any of the money alloted actually winds up where it’s supposed to and instead winds up in the pockets of some contracting company.
It’d the telegraph. A Murdoch owned right wing rag that is just ginning up hate for immigrants in any way possible. I’d expect most of the article is made up.
This is what small government means. Not enough preparation to actually adress a foreseeable situation and then having to spend excessive amounts of public money on private enterprises.
If the state would have spent a billion on building housing for these people and another billion on affordable housing and infra… it would have been a structural solution after year 1… but never would have been financed by the lawmakers.
This is spoken as someone who thinks they know something about NYC.
First off this article is actually about NYC, not the state of NY.
NYC is WILDLY blue. And NYC is WILDLY complicated and huge from a government perspective. It’s so fucking large that the departments that are supposed to deal with specific policy/law can’t even advise you on any of it. Then a week later you’ll get a fine.
Literally everything you think you said about NYS… is opposite because it’s NYC.
Spoken like a true american who is oblivious to the fact he is governed by the capital class, divided in right and ultra right political parties.
Where did I say left or right? I’m actually deeply aware that left and right are poor nomenclatures and SPECIFICALLY chose not to use it. Mostly because left and right are completely different in the US vs the EU. However, Red and Blue in the USA specifically reference a particular political party. Of which NYC is deep and dark blue, where-as upstate NY (typically a reference to anything that isn’t NYC and it’s surrounding metro area) is oftentimes Red.
You claimed “small government”. That’s not what NYC is, not even close. It’s the Republican party that runs on “Small Government” (incorrectly). But that’s a moot point as NYC is Democrat.
But at least thanks for proving that you’re talking about a topic you have no idea about. All you can do is run to ad hominem rather than actually discuss the problem.
Side note: I’m a dual citizen and hold both US and EU passports. Tell me that I’m a “true american” again, most of the people I interact with in the USA certainly don’t hold the same point of view.
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Damn and here I am paying my taxes like an idiot while I struggle to have a roof over my head.
And all these people did was spend months walking thousands of miles through inhospitable jungle, past deadly cartels and into the U.S. by Coyotes they hoped wouldn’t murder them, get shipped to New York by Texas and end up there in the winter. All for the crime of avoiding being murdered in their home country too.
But I’m sure you have it super hard.
