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tootsie404 t1_j4qtkyt wrote

>The agreement is between the New York City Department of Homeless Services and the Hotel Association for as much as $55,000 per migrant, according to The New York Post, which first reported the deal.

Hotels, including the Row NYC Hotel on 8th Avenue, will become home to hundreds of migrants; the four-star hotel which usually charges $500 a night is now one of many considered an emergency shelter for migrants.

what a fucking racket.

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tamere2k t1_j4r93xo wrote

The Row might have charged $500 on new years eve but absolutely no where close to that regularly. It's such misleading data to put what their rates were like decades ago.

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sr71Girthbird t1_j4tn4rx wrote

Exactly. Certainly a conundrum any way around it. Easier to provide services when you get a bunch of people in need to stay in one place, so hotels are obvious choices. Not like many people would be champing at the bit to have them living nextdoor either. Price tag aside there probably aren't many other options besides repurposing unused office space or something like that, and the groundwork and pushback (from other tenants in such a theoretical building) around that sort of fix likely makes it a bad option as well.

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AnacharsisIV t1_j4sqim8 wrote

FYI the Row used to be the Milford Plaza, it's old and musty and like a step above a Motel 6. The place is far from a luxury hotel and I'm honestly baffled by whomever gave them four stars.

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Swagyolodemon t1_j4t7mh0 wrote

Hotel stars is more a checklist thing than actual review on the quality of accommodations

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phoenixmatrix t1_j4rde3u wrote

On one hand its definitely a racket/shifting public money to deepen some people's pockets.

On the other hand doing something like this in a time sensitive manner does limit people's options quite significantly, especially while trying not to have the neighbors losing their shit over it.

For sure some people are getting rich out of this. But I doubt even the best mayor ever would be able to do SIGNIFICANTLY better. Housing someone isn't that expensive. Housing someone in a time sensitive manner and maintaining the place (especially if its getting wrecked) is a whole other story.

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FartSniffingDog t1_j4rl49z wrote

$55,000/year = $150.68/night

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seyerly16 t1_j4slywe wrote

The payment is for 6 months of housing not a year, so it’s actually $300 a night.

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FartSniffingDog t1_j4sm9mp wrote

“For as much as” means max as opposed to $500/Night now

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ZinnRider t1_j4r6pov wrote

Love the NY Post coverage. Anytime there’s a situation in which people who need to be helped are actually being helped it’s always a matter of money. And they’ll always be there to make sure you know how much it costs. Riles up that indignation. How much?. “I don’t want my tax dollars going to those people.”

They’re in business to divide and conquer the 99%. With stories just like these.

Notice there’s never a story calling into focus the obscene budget of the NYPD. Or the fact that the CEO of energy monopoly Con Ed takes in over $10million a year (for what?). Or that the NY Public Library has their “budget” constrained constantly while the high crimes of the financial looters go on pillaging without pause? Or that some scumbag Wall St hedge fund guy will make in a week what most people here on Reddit won’t see in a year.

But yeah. Let’s just keep beating up on the needy, the poor, the maligned and marginalized. The good ole American Way. Or more likely according to the truth, as Lou Reed put it, “Give me your poor and tired, I’ll piss in them. That’s what the Statue of Bigotry says.”

I’m not saying that anytime one of these “deals” are made there isn’t the hint of corruption present.

But be careful. If you’re really concerned about corruption the NY Post, the ultimate propaganda mouthpiece of the ruling elite and the cops, is gonna misdirect you every time.

Practically everything they print is for the purpose of keeping you in Fear. So that you’re more easily manipulated and subsumed under their control. They choose an angle for a story that, instead of eliciting focused indignation for an economic system that is a failure in providing a safeguard for people who genuinely need it, makes you turn your indignation to the people themselves.

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deathhand OP t1_j4rdd51 wrote

But this isn't the Post?

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Informal_Egg_3907 t1_j4rwb0n wrote

its the pavlovian progressive reflex when they hear (another) story that makes them look dumb

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Beetlejuice_hero t1_j4s2wgc wrote

Do you expect to be taken seriously when you post on an alt account? What are you cowardly hiding on your main account?

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TrumpLicksBalls00 t1_j4rrzin wrote

Before typing word salad, take a literal moment to realize this isn’t the NY Post

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ZinnRider t1_j4rw3tk wrote

The moment to take is yours, petty bouge.

The reference to NY Post is right there in the person’s post that I was responding to.

Seems you’re a little too social media-conditioned to scroll through things rather than take the time to actually read.

Keep scrolling though.

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casicua t1_j4r9bdo wrote

But it’s gonna trickle down! Any day now bro, I swear. We just need to give CEOs more money bro. It’s gonna trickle down next week!

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ZinnRider t1_j4rxok2 wrote

Lots of temporarily embarrassed millionaire here, comrade…

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