Posted on 12/07/2019 6:33:35 AM PST by george76
There's no place like home, Mayor Bill de Blasio says—and that's why he's shipping the city's indigent to Newark.
In his weekly Ask the Mayor radio segment, de Blasio asserted that his controversial Special One-Time Assistance program, under which the administration pays the rent of a homeless household for one year if they exit the five boroughs, as the only way to get people into long-term accommodations. The comments came in response to a caller who reported being a homeless person relocated to a dilapidated apartment in New Jersey—and came days after Newark lodged a lawsuit against de Blasio and New York City for lodging its poor in New Jersey apartments.
De Blasio acknowledged that a city Department of Investigations probe revealed this year that SOTA had placed homeless New Yorkers in unsanitary and unsafe units,
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He also slammed Newark's government which, besides suing over SOTA, has barred private landlords in its jurisdiction from accepting tenants through the initiative.
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Newark should send HIM the bill ...
Screw your own
and like a good neighbor......Blablasio is there
Why do people put up with losers like de Blasio ?....I dunna know. They are Democrats?
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