What this means is that Mayor DiBlasio is ending the City's paying property owners $3000/night to temporarily house a homeless person. If you built a highrise you can't fill, the City will pay you more than the nightly rate of the Presidential Suite at the Waldorf to let a homeless person stay there. You don't have to take in a permanent tenant, which would interfere with selling the unit.
It's potluck for the homeless -- they might get the rodent-infested public housing even the Christian Science Monitor can't put a positive spin on, or they might get a brand new luxury apartment. Ten days of that would pay a year's rent in about as nice a building as any. One sixth of that would be more than enough for a regular hotel room at the Waldorf.
In an ideal world, that money would be freed up to create businesses and jobs so people could pay their own rent. However, the man taking up half the subway with carts full of smelly garbage might not be successfully educated to become a recycled-vintage goods dealer anytime soon. He may not even be able to check into a hotel or figure out air b&b.
At least one state just reimburses the hotel bill for any hotel which takes a homeless person in below freezing weather, which they are ordered to do, in no matter what kind of condition the person arrives. They can't walk them in the cold. Maybe they don't round them up like NYPD always does, which seemed particularly heroic this week because there were so many more than anyone has ever seen.
And the Congress repealed Obamacare! Which will probably get vetoed, though it may be responsible for the record number of people on Medicaid. Throwing in the towel on paying thousands more a year than they will ever spend on healthcare, scared to trip and fall on the terribly bad streets now that Senator Pothole has been replaced by agenda-pushers who refuse to do case work.
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