Unable to cart off illegal aliens flooding the Big Apple and overcrowding shelters, New York City’s mayor set his sights on shipping out another group of people.
With estimates of around 10,000 aliens coming to New York City each month, Mayor Eric Adams (D) has quickly learned the downsides of being a sanctuary city. Now, after deeming Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) a “madman” for busing so-called “asylum seekers” to NYC, Hizzoner’s inability to play hot potato with the rest of the state left him eyeing the homeless population.
Tuesday, City Hall announced an expansion to the City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement (CityFHEPS) rental assistance program reaching beyond the five boroughs to any county within the entirety of the Empire State.
“As a result of a housing crisis and more than 116,000 asylum seekers arriving in New York City asking for shelter since last spring, we have more people than ever in the city’s care. Our shelters are far past capacity, but thousands of households still remain left stuck without any affordable housing options across the five boroughs,” Adams lamented in a statement. “Now is the time to create new options for permanent affordable housing for New Yorkers by expanding CityFHEPS even further than this administration did earlier this year.”
According to the release, the vouchers would leave the city footing the bill for the remainder of monthly rent costs after 30 percent of the holder’s income is paid toward housing. “…voucher holders will now be able to utilize their voucher to obtain permanent, affordable housing not only within New York City but also in any county or locality across New York State.”
“These reforms will give longtime New Yorkers the ability to move out of our city’s shelter system to other parts of the state with more affordable housing options, while simultaneously opening up space in our city’s shelter system for the approximately 10,000 migrants who continue to arrive in the city seeking shelter month after month,” said Adams.
“We hope our partners across the state will greet these longtime New Yorkers with open arms and good job opportunities,” the buck-passing mayor added.
As previously reported, Adams forecasted a cost of $12 billion to the city through the year 2025 to deal with the current crisis and had instructed agencies to slash their budgets after cries for state and federal aid remained unanswered.
This was after the unabashed sanctuary city mayor took a NIMBY stance and sought to pawn off the illegal alien problem to anywhere that wasn’t New York City. “We have 108,000 cities, villages, towns. If everyone takes a small portion of that, and if it’s coordinated at the border, to ensure that those who are coming here to this country in a lawful manner is actually moved throughout the entire country, it is not a burden on one city,” said Adams in May.
NYC Mayor wants to send illegals to every city ‘throughout the entire country’https://t.co/hkp0753TSu
— American Wire News (@americanwire_) May 22, 2023
Having already spent hundreds of millions to book hotels for aliens in the city, the mayor had tried to do the same in upstate counties, but localities had refused to shoulder the burden that Adams had invited on himself.
Before the program expansion, the Department of Social Services touted that 15,000 households had relocated from shelters into permanent housing in Fiscal Year 2023, a roughly 18 percent increase from the previous year. This came after certain restrictions, like a 90-day requirement for eligibility, had been eased.
A social media consensus slammed Adams’ announcement to essentially replace longtime New Yorkers with illegal aliens and decried, “…being forced to relocate to other Cities isn’t a housing plan.”
Being being forced to relocate to other Cities isnt a housing plan..
— Decatur Tenant Association (@DecaturTenant) September 26, 2023
It that because illegals are pushing longtime New Yorkers out of shelters?
— Rich Muny (@RichMuny) September 26, 2023
When is the next mayor election? I’m ready to vote this guy out!
— JARIC LIHN (@jariclnnf) September 27, 2023
Hey NYC, how’s that Sanctuary City thing working out for you? Was fine til the people actually started getting bussed in huh?
— nobody (@justanauditor1) September 26, 2023
— Veterans Taking Back (@VeteranTakeBack) September 26, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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