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New Yorkers living in dangerous 'cluster units' as homeless population tops 59,000, a record high
NY Daily News ^ | 2/1/15 | BY HARRY STEVENS , GREG B. SMITH

Posted on 02/01/2015 4:40:53 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

Thousands of New Yorkers living in dangerous 'cluster units' as homeless population tops 59,000, a record high

The homeless count represents a 10% jump during Mayor de Blasio's first year in office. Despite his vows to turn around the problem and ditch the use of cluster units, the city is still forced to house families in these much-criticized apartments, which have often been cited for hazardous code violations.

The homeless population has risen to an all-time high, forcing the de Blasio administration to house desperate families in decrepit tenements red-flagged by the city’s own inspectors as hazardous.

Since he arrived at City Hall pledging to turn things around, Mayor de Blasio has struggled to confront a long-intractable problem that has only gotten worse.

By mid-December, the homeless census reached a record 59,068 — nearly the population of Utica, city records show. The Coalition for the Homeless says it peaked even higher at 60,352.

The homeless count, according to the city and the coalition, includes 25,000 children. And it represents a 10% jump from the 53,615 in shelters on de Blasio’s Inauguration Day.

To reduce these distressing numbers, the city has tried to move families into scarce permanent housing, but has been forced to continue using much-criticized apartments known as “cluster sites.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


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Another product of the Democrat engineered socialist Holocaust...Have no education, no skills, not married, but let's have 12 kids anyway and complain when the city gives you a free 3 bedroom apartment besides paying for your food, clothing and medical.
1 posted on 02/01/2015 4:40:53 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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Eleven of her 12 children are living in the three-bedroom where she was placed. Each sibling in the home — ages 5 to 23 — has a bunk bed, with the girls sharing one room and the boys sharing another. Everybody uses one bathroom.

“There’s no privacy,” Hollis said. “It’s just ridiculous.”


2 posted on 02/01/2015 4:50:49 AM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Isn’t Obama’s Open Borders policy great? Give them Free Stuff and they will come.


3 posted on 02/01/2015 4:50:58 AM PST by txrefugee
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NYC is officially a cluster.

It will be hard to blame a Republican for the increase in the homeless, but I think the media will be up to the challenge.

4 posted on 02/01/2015 4:52:33 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Malort, turning taste-buds into taste-foes for generations.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Move all items in the musuems to the United States...then burn NYC to the ground.....


5 posted on 02/01/2015 4:52:57 AM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

The traditional socialist solution to these problems has been to build a “camp”out in the country.


6 posted on 02/01/2015 4:57:33 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: frithguild

I know 2 people who work 3 jobs to support their families, I never hear them complain about “their lack of privacy” from working pretty much all the time of which a huge chunk of their paychecks goes to support welfare breeding cows like this.


7 posted on 02/01/2015 4:59:13 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 8 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: frithguild

My parents worked for a living, and my siblings and I lived like this.

It is not worth buying the complacency of these parasites; let us just stop paying them, and they can develop the survival skills so many of their Third World counterparts have honed - with no interference (or funding) from the government.


8 posted on 02/01/2015 4:59:15 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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Put them on Ellis Island; let them “re-apply” to see if they have anything to offer this country.


9 posted on 02/01/2015 5:00:15 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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B-b-b-but, I only thought we had homelessness when a Republican was President.


10 posted on 02/01/2015 5:05:04 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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John Adams wanted to do that, rather than hand it over to the British. However, George Washington wouldn’t do it. Looks like John Adams was smarter than George Washington in one respect. I wonder if he could see into the future, and knew what NYC would become.


11 posted on 02/01/2015 5:06:03 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (It's better to die free than live as a slave)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Not with an enemy islamist as President. If it helps wreck America, it’s on.


12 posted on 02/01/2015 5:14:32 AM PST by onedoug
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“There’s no privacy,” Hollis said. “It’s just ridiculous.”

Will the lack of privacy prevent your conceiving another child, Hollis? What about any daughters over 14?

13 posted on 02/01/2015 5:18:40 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It's always a longer trip when you defy God." ~ Msgr. Charles Pope)
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“Cluster units ?”
I’ve got another name for this...


14 posted on 02/01/2015 5:21:57 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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cluster unit = Obamaville


15 posted on 02/01/2015 5:22:59 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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Each sibling in the home — ages 5 to 23
Twenty three years old and still living in this pig sty?
And what's with all the teens, especially the boys? Too lazy to find a job?
Where the hell are all the fathers? I have ZERO sympathy.
16 posted on 02/01/2015 5:37:46 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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“The front-door handle fell off last week.”

That’s just terrible. Apparently none of her muscle-bound teenage boys has the wrist strength to turn a screwdriver and put a new handle on....


17 posted on 02/01/2015 5:41:41 AM PST by Tamzee (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~~~ Ronald Reagan)
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I wonder whom did these people vote for.../s


18 posted on 02/01/2015 5:41:52 AM PST by Paid_Russian_Troll
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“There’s no privacy,” Hollis said. “It’s just ridiculous.”

You should have thought about that before you had 12 kids by who knows how many sperm donors.

But there's hope-I understand privacy is a right granted by the Constitution. That right justifies killing inconvenient children, so it might also work in your case. /sarc

19 posted on 02/01/2015 5:44:54 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

ObamaLand


20 posted on 02/01/2015 5:46:04 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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