This article is a bit old (from June 2021) but is still relevant:
Thousands Being Sent Back to Homeless Shelters in Return to Pre-Pandemic Status Quo
Mullings is one of hundreds of homeless adults who the city has so far moved out of commercial hotel rooms and back into congregate shelters, where residents sleep in barracks-style dorms. The city
rented the rooms in more than 60 hotels in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to limit the spread of the coronavirus and to protect some of the city’s most vulnerable New Yorkers.
Oh no, the homeless who spent the last year and half in hotels ranging from 2.5 to 4.5 star hotels that tourists will pay top dollar for (even the shit holes) have to leave. They weren't paying a dime, and had food and water provided, as well as daily cleaning services. The homeless woman in this article even refers to it as "heaven". What I don't get it why these people weren't getting their affairs in order during this time. They had to have known this wouldn't last. This is my massive issue with the homeless. In order to suffer from chronic homelessness, you must make a series of terrible decisions, often going back decades. There's nothing you can do to help people who make these kinds of life errors. They're either too mentally ill, too retarded, or too antisocial. Sometimes all three.
Here's an example of someone being too retarded to avoid homelessness:
“Why not build buildings where 50 percent of apartments are for people in shelters and 50 percent for other people so the landlords can make their money?”
Oh geez I can't imagine why a paying tenant wouldn't want to live in a homeless shelter with a bunch of insane, stinky people who aren't paying? Oh boy I get to pay for their rent too? SIGN ME UP!
They really want to build homeless apartment high rises in NYC and other major metro areas. Can you even imagine? Every business in the area would pack up and leave, who would want to go shopping or dine at a restaurant down the street from a building which houses 100s of homeless people? The city I live in tried doing this, they bought out an entire apartment building. Within a few years the place was completely trashed, most businesses had shut down or moved, and the entire block became a hot bed of drug dealing and bike chop shops. An utter failure, all it did was give the junkies a place to shoot up and party in, for free!
An administrator from another organization who spoke with City Limits said the vaccination rate was 25 percent just over six weeks ago. DHS officials say the city does not track the total number of shelter residents who are vaccinated, but does know that more than 6,000 people have received their doses through an agency initiative. Homeless New Yorkers interviewed for this story said the agency has made the shots easily accessible, though many people have resisted the vaccine.
This is the only part NYers are mad about, as usual. Why would a homeless schizo give 2 shits about COVID anyway? Regardless, it may actually spur the liberals in the area to start dealing with the homeless in NYC. I haven't been there in many years now but in 2009, it was a hellhole. I saw men walking barefoot through Times Square with nothing but a rag tied around his waist. Homeless congregations would take up entire areas under awnings/building entry ways, blocking all traffic. I can't imagine what it's like now.
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