Communist, Che Guevera Quoting New York Mayor Bill DiBlasio Is Paying the Homeless to Go to Other Cities

Not fixing the problem, just pouring the problem out into someone else's driveway.

New York City has a distinctive way of dealing with the homeless: pay for them to live pretty much anywhere in the country.

Since 2014, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration has used a program called Special One-Time Assistance to relocate nearly 10,000 homeless people to over 300 cities. The program – which directly pays landlords a year of rent upfront, free to the beneficiary – is a significant departure from past city homeless relocation efforts because it does not require participants to have strong community ties to the new destination.

Under the program, which comes as homelessness is rising not just in New York but in other major cities, NYC’s homeless have moved as far away as Orlando, Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Birmingham, Ala.

Despite the rental subsidy, the program saves the city a lot of money on health, safety, education and other costs related to homelessness while reducing pressure on its shelter system. But mayors on the receiving end say New York is taking advantage of them. "We have our own challenges here. We don't need to have New York City exporting people into our communities," said Mayor Mike Spano of Yonkers, where 101 households have relocated under the program. "That's certainly not the right thing to do."

Still, the program has not received much attention or pushback in part because New York has not coordinated with – or even informed – other communities about it. Spano, a Democrat, said he learned of the program only recently.

Mayor Elinor Carbone of Torrington, Conn., a Republican, found out about the program from a reporter for RealClearInvestigations. "You're kidding me," she said when informed that New York's homeless have used it to relocate to her town. "That's incredible. Wow."

Presidential contender de Blasio, who’s prepping for the first Democratic debate in Miami this week, commented through a Department of Social Services spokesperson that the city "remains committed to using every tool at our disposal to help these families and individuals find stability in the ways that work for them, including through relocation and rehousing programs that date back decades." But the city did not answer questions about why New York did not coordinate with other cities, nor inquiries about whether the program is open to people with criminal records, including sex offenders.

I can think of about 20 states I'd like to do this with.

BTW, Bill deBlasio's claim that he didn't know that "Hasta la victoria simpre" was a Che Guevera war-cry turns out to have almost certainly been a lie.

[T]he Daily Caller post also notes that de Blasio not only honeymooned in Cuba but went to Nicaragua to support the Sandinistas in the 1980s because theirs was a movement that he "thought made a lot of sense."

This man is not just a casual observer of socialism and communism, as his actions clearly show. Any American who went to Castro's Cuba for a honeymoon and claims to be unfamiliar with famous Che quotes is more than likely lying.

In 1961, Che Guevera murdered a young female hitch-hiker for sexually spurning him.

And that little girl was me.

posted by Ace of Spades at 08:04 PM

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