my mom wanrsa to turn my phoneb off and throw mwe ibn a ashelter

the city seems to be spending far more on sheltering than they need to

probably because privately run aid funds are pocketing that s***

politico.com/news/2023/09/22/nyc-shelters-migrants-discourage-new-arrivals-00117500

governing.com/housing/15-000-nyc-beds-lay-empty-as-mayor-opens-costly-migrant-shelters

time.com/6309481/nyc-migrants-temporary-housing-work-permits

the stats seem to be showing the opposite

the city is spending an extremely large amount of money on putting these people up in new shelters despite there being tons of beds across the city available, and then getting kicked out right after. i don't see any kind of evidence of undocumented civilians getting access to any housing in any sort of journal article, compared to NYC natives

if anything, there seems to be an unnecessary parallel process for asylum seekers vs native NYC'ers where migrants are put in expensive shelters separate from natives, who can't get access to empty shelters (probably due to administrative red tape and budget cuts because these idiots decided that the NYPD is the only thing that needs money)

keep in mind that the NYPD has spent like 11 billion dollars 2023 while being basically useless, while NY libraries are being forced to close on sundays

this isn't a issue of there not being enough money to go towards both migrants and the poor natives, but an issue of the city council giving massive kickbacks to itself and the bloated police force

The issue I’m ref to doesn’t involve shelters
Is abt longer term housing, involving section 8 etc
And the info comes from tenant organizers who deal with city gov and have been doing the work for decades in NYC
A lot more to this issue than is being covered by any of these journals
NYC shelters are a whole different issue — the shelters are rife with sexual violence and theft and most homeless NYers know through experience to avoid the shelters at all costs. There have been dozens of pop up shelters in hotels for migrants that have their own longevity crises

Nah people starting to not rock with this sanctuary city/migrant stuff. Didn't they try to make a youth community center in Chicago a migrant shelter and the people fought against it?

Something no one knows how to speak about yet is the fact that the migrants are skipping the line on housing waitlists that black and brown native New Yorkers have been waiting on for decades.

Ultimately that still isn't the fault of the migrants though. Native residents can still be mad about it sure, but they are directing that anger at the wrong people. The fact that they've been waiting decades for housing is a failure of the city and politicians, not the migrants who have nothing.

It's just been gross the kinda xenophobic hatred I've been seeing from New Yorker's (A lot from Staten Island cause they already racist af out there) towards a group of people who don't even have control of their situation. It's something the native residents should be able to relate with. S***, the fact that the migrants have been showing up in droves isn't even their fault. Greg Abbott is just a sack of s*** who needs to be rolled down some stairs.

I agree completely
That’s why I raise the point that more division among the working class is a plus for the elite - they’re happy to foster tension between native NYers and migrants. It’s politically useful.
And still it is a major problem - native NYers are in crisis that must be addressed and we’re always asked to take dichotomous positions “pro migrant” or “anti migrant” when it’s not that simple. We must attend to the needs of native NYers. I and so many of my friends and fam have been pushed further and further toward the fringes of the city slowly. Gentrification is old news at this point it’s gotten so damn bad. The city cannot handle a million migrants. It can’t handle a million more rich transplants whose finance jobs pay for their $10k/month 1bds that are driving rent prices even higher. It’s a real crisis man

Don’t fall for the misdirect as if migrants are the source of increased cost for tax payers in NY especially. Ain’t yall mayor increase NYPD budget by like $150m? In which he ended up closing many public libraries to secure funding? When it would only cost like 8-10m to keep those same libraries open

great

He's a libertarian brother. Best to just ignore him

Seems like standard political agitprop, regardless of how you feel the migrant situation should be handled nobody in the city is truly under the impression that these people live cushy, enjoyable lives. Anybody really riled up about their presence here is because they hate the people themselves, not their circumstances, which are f***ing terrible

Ubi will be the future once ai takes over and everyone will see Andrew Yang was right

Money that is the equivalent to 0.0066% of the annual us military budget, 0.88% of the NYPD budget to give migrants, only to be spent locally on food & baby supplies, in an attempt to give them the bare minimum approximate of a dignified life & be put on any kind of playing field that’ll allow them to work towards getting a job and becoming members of society/their community. Yeah that’ll turn right wingers and a sizeable chunk of liberals into Hitler real quick

Gonna bring out the xenophobes with this one