Posted on 09/15/2022 7:10:49 PM PDT by conservative98
What’s the carrying capacity of Martha’s Vineyard?
We found ourselves asking this question on Thursday when the island off Cape Cod announced that it was experiencing a “humanitarian crisis” after 50 people arrived there seeking shelter. These were reportedly migrants, some of whom may be refugees from Venezuela’s communist dictatorship, who had reportedly been flown up to Martha’s Vineyard on a plane sent to pick them up from Texas by Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis.
The island’s officials announced that its residents, towns, and “community-based, non-profit” groups had sprung into action to provide food, shelter, health care, and other amenities to the new arrivals. They noted that two “emergency shelters” had been established “in case further arrivals occur.”
So how much capacity does Martha’s Vineyard have to shelter refugees? Census data reports that there are around 17,000 year-long residents and around 14,600 homes on the island. Let’s estimate that each home has four bedrooms and each bedroom can comfortably sleep three people. This would bring the island’s sleep capacity up to 175,200 beds, and 158,200 would be unoccupied.
If anything, this likely underestimates the sleeping capacity of the island. During the summer months, the island is said to regularly house 200,000 people at a time. If you really packed people in, allowing for sleeping in living rooms and libraries and dining rooms and studies, you could easily house 400,000.
Of course, there’s a lot of available land in Martha’s Vineyard that could be converted into housing for refugees. With the current population, there are about 194 people per square mile. That is around the population density of Indiana, Georgia, or North Carolina. If we were to raise the density to that of Washington, DC, which has 11,295 people per square mile, we could fit nearly a million newcomers.
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1/x Kudos to @GovRonDeSantis for sending illegal immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard.
When I proposed the same last year, the elected leadership welcomed it:
County commissioner Keith Chatinover: “I would LOVE Martha’s Vineyard to become a haven…” https://t.co/R1FyL5URCJ— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 15, 2022
50 people is a family picnic. They’ve already said no more donations...send cash...
Originally thought this was from the Bee!
LOCAL Red Cross is refusing to help them.
Not all MS-13 CLUB MEMBERS are MURDERERS!
Sounds like pure politics to me...
And?
You can hear the background noise....get them the hell out of here...signed...BO
Good calculations.
Six million, eh?
The Masschists might need to build a crematorium or two.
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Red Cross prefers to “help” those who are billable.
I think another 4-5000 would be a good test of this theory and should push some people to the breaking point.
Contrary to what they would have you believe, the Red Cross is NOT a charity or charitable organization. It is a profit driven business hiding behind the “charity” label.
50 could comfortably hang out at Obama’s place.
How many beds and baths in the Obama mansion? Enough for at least a bus load.
Manhattan has high rise buildings.
Martha’s Vineyard has a LOT of rental vacancies since the summer season ended Labor Day. Fill them all, every last one of them.
That’s right. And I’m sure there are plenty of little bed & breakfast places and quaint little inns and of course, lots of beautiful private homes, so richly appointed , nice lawns, built in pools.
It’s paradise.
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