Yea the algorithm has clearly gone to the right

Probably understated too given there’s people who went in to commit other crimes but weren’t caught

Is rent stabilized housing not welfare?

I’m not trying to get anybody angry. Just saying west side is so much nicer and this is just making the disparity worse

Lol east side is easily the worst side of Manhattan and it’s not even close

Of course, but this is just scapegoating “consultants”

By definition the government itself is to blame. Who else spends the money??

It’s not like it’s stolen at gunpoint by the consultants. The whole institution is corrupt and they knowingly pay way above market rates for everything. It’s not their money so they don’t care. Been that way for years now and nothing is going to change that without drastic action. Whether it’s privatization or a complete federal takeover who knows.

The biddings aren’t competitive. The agencies are corrupt and they don’t care because they’re spending other people’s money.

“small government” is when the MTA spends $23 billion a year and you live in the highest taxed city in the entire country. Lol give me a break. You guys are losing it. Bending over backwards to blame capitalism or some other thing instead of just admitting government agencies are run by idiots in the first place. Somehow we have more funding than maybe any city in the entire world but get horrible service.

Has the MTA ever tried not to light money on fire? I’m not advocating for lowering the budget, just don’t fucking ask for more when you wasted what you already get.

For STM it’s 1.7B CAD or 1.25B USD. So NYC has 20x the budget.

Are you on the MTAs payroll or something? How are you defending a higher budget? People like you are why taxes are so fucked in this city. You probably don’t even pay income taxes which would explain why you’re not mad about this.

23 billion isn’t enough? What are you smoking?

It’s already funded properly…

I’m making the point that money pit is an exaggeration because it’s relative to other agencies

Dude the MTA pisses away 10x this amount easily. Talk about a money pit

Because it’s the same principle. People are coming to the city to seek the services that are being offered at the expense of people in the community. Many of the homeless you see in the streets aren’t from New York.

And they also don’t have unfettered immigration. No migrant crisis. Their resources are used for their own community.

Imagine thinking that limiting homeless services to New Yorkers, which is the point I’m making, is a bad thing. You’re delusional. Might as well invade Switzerland at this point given your thinking.

The homeless problem will never be solved ever. Any time a city offers homeless services it just brings on more homeless people. It’s a continuous cycle. This is literally playing out with the migrant crisis too. We’re paying 500 a night for each of them to stay in hotels.

Maybe some day this city will stop throwing money at people that aren’t even from New York like much of the homeless and especially non citizens at the expense of taxpayers. You guys are lunatics.

How about we limit these programs to the community and residents they’re meant to support in the first place.

Lol they got us

Lol homeless people don’t like being next to homeless people? How special

Lol only in nyc can you spend 60k per homeless person and still not have good services.

I’m aware of all that. It’s still a fine article to read.

They’re from the MTA…

No just pointing out that it’s a simple article that’s just reporting facts and quotes. Just because the post is right leaning doesn’t mean it’s local news articles are biased.