All of the Democratic Party voting, sanctuary city believing, illegal immigration loving NYC residents should be supportive of this, right? They’ll all step forward and volunteer immediately, right? When will Mayor Adams offer to house some illegals?
Adams floats idea of New Yorkers housing migrants in ‘private residences’
Any spare rooms at Gracie Mansion?
Mayor Eric Adams now wants to start paying every day New Yorkers to shelter migrants in their own homes – as the Big Apple struggles to find beds for the thousands of asylum seekers still flooding into the city.
In his latest attempt to battle the ongoing migrant crisis, Adams on Monday floated a half baked “private residence” plan, which could possibly see local homeowners getting compensation to put up asylum seekers.
Hizzoner put forward the proposal as he revealed religious leaders had agreed to start housing adult male migrants overnight at 50 places of worship scattered across the five boroughs next month.
“It is my vision to take the next step to this, to go to the faith-based locales and then move to private residents, there are residents who are suffering right now because of economic challenges,” Adams said. “They have spare rooms, they have locales and if we can find a way to get over the 30-day rule and other rules that government has in its place, we can take that $4.2 billion, $4.3 maybe now, that we potentially will have to spend, and we can put it back in the pockets of everyday New Yorkers, everyday houses of worship, instead of putting it in the pockets of corporations.” (note: I included the full quote from Adams, rather than the piecemeal the article does)
I’m getting the feeling that the NY Post isn’t very supportive of the plan. Adams did say that he would pay faith based shelters $125 a night per, apparently, every single adult male they shelter…where are all the women and children? Why does it seem this is mostly adult males? Oh, and it is more than the state pays to shelter foster children.
“It would be absolute bedlam,” Park Slope resident Zainab Jah told The Post.
Her partner, Tim Naylor, who has owned their townhouse for 24 years, added migrants shouldn’t be getting a “free ride” when many New Yorkers “cannot afford a decent place of their own.”
“Even if it was worth it to homeowners, the city shouldn’t be spending our money on that kind of crap. You have enough New Yorkers who can barely afford to live,” he said.
“Before you know it we’re going to get flooded with even more migrants.”
Well, hey, NYC was super supportive of illegal aliens. I guess when only they are somewhere else.
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