NYC spends $81,000 annually on each homeless person. Is that single or double occupancy, though?

Photo above – 20% of NYC hotel rooms are occupied by homeless individuals. and are paid for by the city. Savvy guests queue up here for early check-in, hoping more rooms become available.

Is it fair to call someone homeless if they’re occupying a NYC hotel room? Lodging charges, food, medical services, clothing, and even legal advice are among the benefits the NYC budget confers as part of its homeless benefits. Those benefits totaled $4 billion in fiscal year 2025. See links below.

The total NYC budget for everything is $100 billion. So 4 cents of every dollar goes to house and feed the homeless. Both native born and migrant asylum seekers. The links have no breakout between US born and migrant homeless in NYC. At one point the governors of Texas and Florida were sending busloads of border crossers into NYC as a political stunt, to demonstrate their own bonafides. NY welcomed them, as virtue signaling.

In the meantime, 71,000 New Yorkers fled to Florida, and another 25,000 to Texas. Those sunbelt governors probably consider it a good exchange. All the people exiting NY weren’t billionaires of course, but it's safe to say they paid state income tax, local income tax, property tax, sales tax, gasoline tax, etc.

NYC Mayor Mamdani has a plan to deal to deal with all this: more homeless shelters, free bus fare for everyone, and higher taxes. You can’t say he’s wrong. In Zohran Mamdani’s mind he won a landslide. He trounced the disgraced former governor and sex offender (12 victims) Andrew Cuomo who resigned rather than face impeachment and conviction. Mamdani beat Cuomo by 10 points. Third candidate Curtis Sliwa, leader of NYC’s beret wearing unregulated militia, was in single digits. Rational people might view this as failure of the primary system to attract qualified candidates.

There’s no reason to lament Mamdani's win on election day. Even if papers like the New York Times were too inept (or complicit) to point out that $81,000 a year per homeless person is almost triple the $17 an hour minimum wage in the city. In fact, it's probably better that the media ignored this. Just imagine if hundreds of thousands of minimum wage workers saw this number in the paper or on TV. They might possibly quit their jobs to get free hotel rooms and meals.

I’m just sayin’ . . .



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Dick Morris to Newsmax: Dems have lost their minds

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