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bittoxic00 t1_jatxcer wrote

Reply to comment by sidewaysrebel14 in NYC official says city is spending an estimated $10M a day on housing, feeding migrants by NYY657545

You or I would need to earn, what, $170k per year on the books to realize the benefit of $132k. Whatever your views are there are people realizing much less and surviving in this city. Where is it all going

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sidewaysrebel14 t1_jatxruq wrote

Hotel rooms mostly - same places that were used during the pandemic as homeless shelters. The hotels found out they can rent a room to the city for let’s say 400 a night with no need to turn it around or market or have empty rooms. Pretty much a bonanza for hotel owners in a down season for tourism

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bittoxic00 t1_jau05rw wrote

That’s true, I would say give them low cost apartments in city housing but I feel that would just be a slap in the face for anyone already on those lists

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fppencollector t1_jawj3wd wrote

Are these hotel owners planning to replace all the mattresses and bedding, and deep clean all the carpets and upholstery? Otherwise, I don't know how many tourists would visit NYC instead of another destination.

Despite the enormous monetary, logistical, and staffing burden on the city's government and ultimately the taxpayers, there is no appreciation for these provided resources from the beneficiaries.

At a recent city council meeting, Julie Won and Gale Brewer were pressing the HERRC staff on the quality of the food. Breakfast with milk and fresh fruit, prepared sandwiches for lunch and a hot dinner that is calorically and nutritionally sufficient is very reasonable. Religious and medical adjustments are accomodated.

Demands for meals that are culturally familiar, when there are people from multiple regions of the world is not a reasonable requirement. Specific meal Demands for chicken and rice is not reasonable.

My takeaway from the article:

Yet despite the city’s pleas for help from the Biden and Hochul administrations, it has gotten a drop in the bucket when it comes to financial help — even as the Big Apple barrels toward a projected $4.2 billion two-year total bill to handle the influx.

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ifiwereaplatypus t1_jax82mk wrote

>Are these hotel owners planning to replace all the mattresses and bedding, and deep clean all the carpets and upholstery? Otherwise, I don't know how many tourists would visit NYC instead of another destination.

This statement assumes that migrants are "dirtier" than tourists. On the cartoonishly evil range, I rate this statement 9/10 on the CE scale.

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fppencollector t1_jaxmarm wrote

That's why there are outbreaks occurring in NYC public schools stemming from children allowed to attend classes without vaccination records or titer tests.

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ifiwereaplatypus t1_jaxt3gu wrote

The asylum seekers who are vaccinated at the border and then bussed to New York in a tax-payer funded political campaign by a sitting Republican governor are the cause of outbreaks of… what, exactly? Gonorrhea?

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fppencollector t1_jaxupqc wrote

https://nypost.com/2023/02/04/migrant-students-dont-need-to-show-proof-of-vaccinations/

The Simon Baruch Middle School in Gramercy Park had a chickenpox case, according to a Jan. 25 notice from the principal which said students not vaccinated for the illness could not attend school.

A parent at the school said after the announcement, five migrant children were absent for a few days from the class in question.

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supermechace t1_jaz8t66 wrote

Also for real estate companies and owners who charge the city for housing the homeless and migrants. Take from the middle class and give to the wealthy

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