Mayor Bloomberg found a clever way to deflect criticism over the city's growing homelessness problem: When confronted with the disturbing statistic that the average stay for families in city homeless shelters had jumped 30 percent during 2012, the Mayor responded that since the shelters are so nice - homeless people don't want to leave.
Mayor Under Fire for Comment on Homeless Shelters
Mayor Bloomberg found a clever way to deflect criticism over the city’s growing homelessness problem: When confronted with the disturbing statistic that the average stay for families in city homeless shelters had jumped 30 percent during 2012, the Mayor responded that since the shelters are so nice – homeless people don’t want to leave.
From the AP:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New York City has made its homeless shelters “so much more pleasurable” that there’s less pressure for people to leave.
Bloomberg said Thursday that before he came into office, the shelter system was an “abomination.” He said he’s proud they “provide a safe, clean environment with on-site security, support services and caseworkers for children on site.”
The mayor was responding to a question that the average stay for families had jumped 30 percent during the 2012 fiscal year.
Coalition for the Homeless Executive Director Mary Brosnahan said the remarks were “shocking and offensive.” She said Bloomberg had “systematically closed every single path to affordable housing once available to homeless families.”
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, a mayoral contender, said Bloomberg was “living in a fantasy world.”
DeClasse- Intellectual
I wonder which comment rat e top ranking? We have now Bloomber’s comment on homeless shelters and the people out necessity are forced into them. Then there was Nancy Pelosi’s comment that welfare is good for the ecoomny because welfare checks are used to create jobs. This is the thinking of the liberla minded Democrats in power; just wait it will get worse if he is returned to office later this year.