Even more homeless on the streets and in shelters
From
CBS 2:
More people are living on New York City’s streets now than at this time last year.
As CBS 2’s Hazel Sanchez reported, the number of homeless on the streets — 3,357 — is down by 24 percent since 2005, according to city data. But the number is up by 177 people, or 5 percent, compared to last year.
Overall, there are more than 56,000 people living in city shelters — a number that continues to grow, according to the DHS.
8 comments:
56K is a whole crapload of people. That is no joke.
56,000 is not a whole crapload, considering that there are around 9 million in this city. That is a very small percentage. Then breakdown those numbers, how many came to NYC and immediately became one of those statistics, how many are drug addicts/alcoholics, how many are here illegally, how many are mentally ill, how many are constantly unemployed even during good times and how many have just made bad choices and do not care to work. That number will get much smaller. The homeless issue is not so much a crisis in NYC, the crisis is the hype.
Plus how many of those folks can move to a different state with a low cost of living and then actually live in an apartment or house, that number drops drastically.
1:50 "I came out here for not the right reasons."
Aka I got addicted to heroin
No matter how many homeless shelters the City builds there will always be street people. Many have mental and/or addiction issues. New York City and State has always done a poor job at institutionlizing the mentally ill, sometimes because the ACLU has gotten the Courts to ban it. Imagine the frustration of seeing a family member or friend who needs to be put into a hospital but can't get them into one. No attention gets paid until they hurt themselves or someone else and then everyone says "why wasn't that maniac locked up".
56,000 is not a whole crapload, considering that there are around 9 million in this city
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And its not as if 56k out of the cities 9M became homeless. A very large portion of the homeless population came to NYC *already* homeless.
They come here because they can get things here they cant in most of the rest of the country, both from government handouts, and from suckering gullible people into giving them money.
Plus how many of those folks can move to a different state with a low cost of living and then actually live in an apartment or house, that number drops drastically.
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What is insane is how many of them COME from places of lower costs of living. How many stories have we seen on homless who say things like "I just got here from Georgia/Penn/Florida/etc"
I don't want to sound heartless but the majority of these "homeless" people are completely crazy.
There is something very wrong when you see a young couple in their 20's sitting together begging on the street.
A lot of these crazies are
anti-corporate America or
anti-capitalism and would rather beg than get a job.
When times get tough sane, hard working people don't simply throw their hands up in the air and say to themselves..."Well, it's time to start begging on the streets.....".
Competent people don't move to NYC from other states and then start begging once they realize how expensive things are here.
I'm sure "Big-D" will solve this problem. Just raise taxes and send tons of it to your wife's cronies for bullshit programs, right? I feel so hopeful about the future of NYC, don't you?
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