- The State Senator from the area actually shows up for protests.
- He mentions that this hotel is not near a subway or jobs.
- It is meant to keep people out of view.
- He calls for it to be shut down.
To recap Aaron's remarks:
- The DHS told the residents of at least one shelter on Jericho Turnpike that last week's protest would be violent and that they must leave.
- Those who did not want to leave were threatened with being sent back to the PATH center in the Bronx and having their kids taken away.
- You get preferential treatment in the shelters if you are an "MOS" (member of the service). Otherwise, you get treated like shit.
- Food is provided at the shelter that is spoiled and has made his family and others sick.
- DHS relies on scare tactics.
- You actually have to take them to court to get anywhere.
- DHS bounces people around from shelter to shelter, and keeps people in the system for years.
- The de Blasio administration's video was a lie because the shelter residents are more afraid of DHS than of protesters.
- The caseworker at the shelter got fired. A new one was hired, and there is only one on site for the entire shelter.
- The young man's family just got approved for permanent housing because DHS knew Aaron was talking with the protesters.
- Sam Chang built a 205-room hotel on a marsh in a remote area.
- After Sandy, a service provider named Bedco opened a men's shelter on the first two floors of the hotel.
- The men are forced to leave via side entrances and hotel guests are not told about the presence of the shelter.
- The men eat meals in their rooms instead of in a congregate area.
- Sex offenders are housed there without notification to the community.
- There is no proof that paid for services are actually provided to the men.
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They also did a return visit to Harshad Patel's house! Go Maspeth!
DeBlasio and his fauxgressive supporters and the big hypocrite, Steven Banks, should be ashamed. Really ashamed. They claim they are helping people, but they are really threatening them. Disgusting.
Despite Steve Banks history of suing NYC for its ineffective policies in housing the homeless, he has been ineffective in creating positive change and outcomes remain as dismal as they were in the late 80s and 90s. So disappointing. Those of us who knew Steve Banks back then were expecting so much more from him.
Yes shelter residents come out and say how the living conditions are. Expose it. Do not live in fear. Do not be imtudated by this mayor and Banks.
Where is the dignity and respect? It is a very hard choice to go homeless especially if you had it and then lost it. To live in filthy shelters and they bring up the children....YES how is the children living in such conditions?
Join the protest for solutions! This protest is not against you it is against the system. The system needs solutions not warehousing!
I will say it again. What is being done here by those in charge and their underlings, and considering the liberal ideologies they supposedly believe in, is just plain evil.
These are just isolated, (just like the victims of the system) random stories.
I am sure that they are a rare anomaly.
Nothing to see here, just keep moving and GO HOME!!!
You know what be really great is if these people were taken to the Krawley/Catz fund raiser at the Kaufman Studios for an impromptu press conference with a news service detailing a split team to cover the singing duo inside
--as these people who were given the shaft - and being ignored - are talking to cameras on the outside.
A great visual that really encapsulates the way official Queens treats the rest of us.
They are just a bunch of 'hillarys'
Why doesn't crappy have an open letter to both the borough president and Jimmy, the majority leader of city council, TO DO SOMETHING!!!
The "system" needs to be dismantled. If NYC were not legally bound to shelter people they would move on and find new lives elsewhere. All that's being done is enabling poverty to continue.
these people are deplorable and irredeemable
Protestors can you get me my Section 8 voucher? I got on the list in 1994. now there's every other kind of voucher but never anything for me.
Oh....but isn't it OK....in fact.....SOP practice to abuse residents?
They are considered subhuman by people such as the Patels who make fortunes off of suffering.
Then we inflict the suffering on neighborhood residents by ruining their area.
Thank you mayor Duh Blaz!!
Nice safe neighborhood with a possibility of a single person homeless shelter?! If these people do not work what will they do when they are ask to leave in the morning and return later on?
Roam around our nice quiet neighborhood? Panhandling will be on the rise. Crime will go up.
There goes our nice safe neighborhood. Thanks a lot deBlasio and Banks!
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