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07-29-2009, 03:13 PM #1
NYC aids homeless with one-way tickets home
NYC aids homeless with one-way tickets home
City is struggling to keep families out of expensive shelter system
By Julie Bosman
updated 1:26 a.m. PT, Wed., July 29, 2009
NEW YORK - They are flown to Paris ($6,332), Orlando ($858.40), Johannesburg ($2,550.70), or most frequently, San Juan ($484.20).
They are not executives on business trips or couples on honeymoons. Rather, all are families who have ended up homeless, and all the plane tickets are courtesy of the city of New York (one-way).
The Bloomberg administration, which has struggled with a seemingly intractable problem of homelessness for years, has paid for more than 550 families to leave the city since 2007, as a way of keeping them out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family. All it takes is for a relative elsewhere to agree to take the family in.
Many of them are longtime New Yorkers who have come upon hard times, arrive at the shelter’s doorstep and jump at the offer to move at no cost.
Others are recent arrivals who are happy to return home after becoming discouraged by the city’s noise, the mazelike subway, the difficult job market or the high cost of housing.
“I didn’t expect the city to be the way it is,â€Last edited by JohnDoe2; 03-05-2017 at 08:21 PM.
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