Mayor Mamdani: Tear down this sprawl! – Latest News
New York City spends a small fortune on the homeless.
Mayor Mamdani’s newest finances contains, for example, a $1.9 billion “emergency” resort shelter contract.
The Department of Homeless Services estimates it’s going to spend an astounding $97,000 per avenue homeless particular person within the subsequent fiscal yr.
Homeless encampments close to Hudson yards and the Javitz Center on Tuesday morning. Lone Pine Press for NY Post
If taxpayers are going to shell out that a lot money, we need — nay, deserve — one thing in return.
And that one thing is streets free of homeless encampments.
If the town goes to have a “right to shelter,” then there must be a covenant that the mentally in poor health and substance addicts should take that shelter.
That’s the deal.
Otherwise it’s simply a waste of our money.
Instead, Mamdani is taking our money whereas additionally blocking a cleanup of Manhattan’s west aspect, the place encampments have now unfold throughout blocks.
Progressives appear incapable of taking to coronary heart the teachings that New York City has discovered again and again.
Take, for example, Mamdani boasting on July 2 that the town had its “safest start to any year on record.”
This didn’t magically occur as a result of Mamdani was elected.
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It occurred as a result of of a righteous backlash to the idiocy of “defund the police.”
It occurred as a result of Jessica Tisch rebuilt the NYPD and shoplifting was made a crime again.
It occurred as a result of Rikers Island, which was emptied to three,809 prisoners in 2020, crammed back up to six,550, taking the worst of the worst off the streets.
This is clear to everybody however our socialist leaders, simply because it’s apparent that the “broken windows” philosophy makes a safer, more welcoming metropolis for everybody.
Allowed to fester, encampments will unfold.
They will scare away vacationers.
They will push away households.
They will increase crime and chaos on the streets.
We know as a result of it’s occurred earlier than.
Mayor Mamdani, don’t let it occur again.
