City warned it cannot keep using taxpayers’ money to fund its extensive property network
  • RubberDuckEnglish
    1•12 minutes ago

    This is what small government means. Not enough preparation to actually adress a foreseeable situation and then having to spend excessive amounts of public money on private enterprises.

    If the state would have spent a billion on building housing for these people and another billion on affordable housing and infra… it would have been a structural solution after year 1… but never would have been financed by the lawmakers.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•4 hours ago

    Only $162,000 per room yearly or $13,700 per month. What a bargain! Looks like their math is off though. At $352 per night x 14k rooms, they’re about $500 million short of $2.3B but maybe that’s bribery money that isn’t counted toward housing these people.

    According to Google, there are plenty of rooms at $100-$200 per night so why are they spending so much? Classic government ‘assistance’ where they make a big show of passing legislation and then barely any of the money alloted actually winds up where it’s supposed to and instead winds up in the pockets of some contracting company.

    • RubberDuckEnglish
      1•10 minutes ago

      Any idea what kind of an organization you would need to coordinate this kind of operation. Most likely the cost mentioned is the “all in” price for the whole ordeal surrounding these people.

    • @[email protected]English
      23•4 hours ago

      It’d the telegraph. A Murdoch owned right wing rag that is just ginning up hate for immigrants in any way possible. I’d expect most of the article is made up.

  • @Chill_DanEnglish
    -8•4 hours ago

    Damn and here I am paying my taxes like an idiot while I struggle to have a roof over my head.

    • Flying SquidMEnglish
      5•2 hours ago

      And all these people did was spend months walking thousands of miles through inhospitable jungle, past deadly cartels and into the U.S. by Coyotes they hoped wouldn’t murder them, get shipped to New York by Texas and end up there in the winter. All for the crime of avoiding being murdered in their home country too.

      But I’m sure you have it super hard.