New York's Controversial Solution for Migrants and the Homeless

      Ready for a wake-up call, America? We're peeling back the layers on the pressing issue of homelessness, particularly in the epicenter of New York City. Expect an uncensored look at the troubling statistics that show a staggering rise in homelessness over the years, alongside an influx of new migrants. We throw some burning questions into the mix: What happens when our homeless veterans are neglected while billions are shipped off to wage wars abroad? How do the city's new arrivals compare with those holding Section 8 vouchers, battling every day for a chance at a decent life?

As we steer the conversation toward the recent migrant wave in New York City, we question the implications for the city's existing homeless. Brace yourself as we scrutinize the unsettling act of housing migrants in luxurious five-star hotels and offering them employment opportunities, while countless locals languish on the streets. We also highlight a must-watch PBS.org episode that offers valuable insights into this issue. It's high time we put our own citizens first and start making a difference. So, tune in, challenge your preconceptions and let's collectively work towards meaningful change.
                                                MUST WATCH VIDEO - EXCLUSIVE!!!
What really happens to the money for affordable housing....
https://youtu.be/8iei3HtdBbQ?si=HecZcdcqUtvZ508A

HUD estimates that approximately 990 New York veterans are homeless.
https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/basic-facts-about-homelessness-new-york-city/
Around 30 percent of homeless families in NYC are employed but still can't afford an apartment. 

Homeless Veterans
https://veterans.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2022/11/2020-0_veteranhomelessnessnys_report_final.pdf

This legislation acknowledged trends indicating an increase in the number of women
veterans experiencing homelessness, as well as the difficulties such veterans face in
obtaining shelter, childcare, and employment.

More than 38,000 Homeless Veterans across the United States in 2023
https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-announces-goal-to-house-38000-veterans-experiencing-homelessness-in-2023/

Since the war began more than a year ago, the United States has given Ukraine more than $113 billion in aid. We know it is a lot of money.
https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/public/2023/6/america-s-billions-in-aid-to-ukraine-isn-t-charity-but-it-can-t-be-wasted

Average Cost of living?
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/mortgages/cost-of-living-by-state/
$49,000 Average cost of Living in USA * 40,000 homeless Veterans = Do the math

Homelessness wasn't always this bad. "In the 1970s, there was an adequate supply of affordable units
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/06/08/1003982733/squalor-behind-the-golden-gate-confronting-californias-homelessness-crisis

How many immigrants have been sent to New York?
Since April 2022, more than 116,000 migrants have arrived in New York City.
https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/9/26/23875580/new-york-city-migrant-crisis-influx-eric-adams

The numbers. In 2019, the overall number of homeless residents was 78,604. The vast majority of them, 74,982, were in shelters while 3,622 were not. This represents a slight decrease from 2018 when the total number was 78,67

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello guys, let's dive right on into this one.
You know how we do.
This is OG GOAT and it's aboutto go down.
This episode here is on thehomeless and homelessness across
this country, especially in NewYork City, where I live.
Now, we all know this topic alltoo well, but today I want to

(00:25):
address some issues abouthomelessness, which is being
avoided Now.
Homelessness has been aroundfor as long as I can remember
and will probably always bearound to some degree.
However, the issue is how we asa nation treat the homeless.
That's what the issue isCoalition for the Homeless, dhs,

(00:49):
department of Homeless Services.
They talk about this and theybreak it down, along with a lot
of other companies that I'mbringing to you tonight.
So sit back, you're in for areal serious ride on this one.
I'm going to leave links toeverything we go over and all

(01:13):
the facts in this case, becauseyou know we like to have the
facts.
I know you like to have thefacts, so the links to the facts
and reputable websites whereall this information came from
will be listed.
So make sure you check out thefacts.
Over the years past couple yearsmainly I've been thinking

(01:34):
between the pandemic and amigrant situation and the
already ongoing, you know,minimum wage and the whole nine
yards, everything.
And I'm looking and I'm tryingto figure out how you're busing

(01:58):
in and I think the numberssomewhere between I'm getting
numbers between 95 and 120,000migrants to a city that already
has I think New York has 30, 40,maybe 60, 70,000 homeless

(02:25):
people already, between kids,adults and single adults, as of
August 2023.
I mean, come on, guys, this isfound also on the coalition for
the homeless.
You go to their website onceagain.
I'm leaving links here and thenumbers is astronomical.

(02:46):
It's going crazy.
Over the past 30, 40 years,it's like six times the amount
since the mid-80s and it seemslike back in the 70s we was
doing fairly okay, not to saythere was no homeless, because I
think there will always be someform of homelessness, but it

(03:09):
was nowhere what we're dealingwith today.
So how tell me just how you busin 120 migrants when you have
40, 50,000 homeless peoplealready on the street?
Now, listen, if you're gonnaput the migrants in hotels and

(03:29):
immediately come up with asolution to give them a job, I
have no problem with that.
My problem is, is what aboutthe homeless people that have
been here already?
There's people that holdingvouchers for years, this phony
fake, in some cases some peoplego through, some people don't,

(03:52):
but the majority of them do not.
These section eight vouchers.
Have you ever tried looking fora section eight apartment or
apartment building or some sortof housing that accepts the
section eight?
I have for friends of mine andlet me tell you something it is
difficult, it's almostimpossible.
Nobody accepts them.

(04:12):
It's like a fake document.
It's like a phony $3 bill andyou got people running forward
and killing themselves over thisand it's worthless.
It's actually counterfeit.
If you really wanna be frankabout it, it's counterfeit, it's

(04:33):
fake, it's not worth the paperit's written on, basically, and
it's sad that you're playingwith these people's lives.
This is not a joke.
You got children and adults.
You got people's lives at stakeand you're playing with them.
You're sending $113 billion toanother country to help them

(04:57):
fight a war in another countrywhen you have veterans that's
been fighting for this countryfor years that are homeless, I
mean it doesn't make sense.
You have you have what?
Maybe 40,000 homeless veteransthroughout the United States.

(05:19):
There's no reason a veteran ofthe United States should be
homeless and it's like a slap inthe face to take money and send
it to another country, when thepeople that fought for this
country are sitting and sleepingon cardboard boxes and under

(05:43):
the subway and all kind ofnonsense.
Something is wrong with thispicture and nobody's talking
about it.
Something is very wrong.
So this episode, guys, I wannabring this stuff to light
because I think there's somethings that just need to be said
.
And if you look at the math,it's just astronomical, it just

(06:08):
doesn't make sense, it's crazy.
And then you know, I guess,like the old saying goes, if you
can't dazzle them withbrilliance, baffle them with BS.
And that's pretty much whatthey're doing, because this is
nothing but BS that they'rethrowing around.
It doesn't make sense, thenumbers don't add up.

(06:29):
You've got 40,000, 50,000homeless people in New York City
and you're busing in 120,000migrants.
Okay, you're putting them inhotels and then, immediately,
your solution is let them work.
Let them work.
But what about the 40,000 thatwas already here?
Okay, let's say there's apercentage of the 40,000 that

(06:51):
are disabled or mentally ill.
According to the Coalition forthe Homeless, it's maybe 40%.
50% of them have some sort ofmental illness.
Okay, you still have another20,000 people, families that are
willing and able to work.

(07:12):
Okay, so they should have gottenpriority for these jobs, not
saying you don't give themigrants a place to stay.
Everybody needs a place to stay.
But I'm just saying they livehere, they've been here, they
have seniority okay, let themget their housing.
And if you want to give housingto someone else, take care of

(07:35):
your house first.
You can't go sweep theneighbors back yard when you got
trash and yours.
I don't understand how is thatpossible.
You know we need to concentrateon our own backyard and clean
that up before we start bringingin and trying to help everybody

(07:58):
else.
Something is wrong with thatpicture.
The numbers don't add up $113billion to another country.
When you got 200,000 homelesspeople here in this country.
You could do a lot for thehomeless people in this country

(08:20):
with $200,000, I'm sorry, with$113 billion.
You could do a lot for thesepeople over the course of 10, 15
years, but we're doing nothing.
But we're doing nothing.
Okay, we just solved half theproblem right here tonight by

(08:43):
immediately dividing thehomeless between the mentally
and physically disabled and theones that are willing and able
to work.
Okay, boom, now you got half ofthe amount of homeless people
that you had because you justput all the ones that are
willing and able to work to work.
You gave them a job that theywere able to sustain and,

(09:08):
according to the government,will run somewhere around
$50,000, but minimum wagedoesn't meet $50,000.
What part of the gain is thatMinimum wage doesn't meet
$50,000, but you got on yourwebsite it says it on Forbes I
got links to it that say thatthe average cost of living is

(09:30):
$50,000 and your minimum wage is$30,000.
Come on now, come on, come on.
This is you know.
I mean, what are we doing here?
What are we doing?
What do you expect the outcometo be for this?
And then you're worrying.
Then you're gonna do a newsprogram on oh, there's more and
more homeless.
Of course there's more and morehomeless because there's no

(09:53):
place for them to go.
The cost of living is increasing, but your salary is not
increasing with the cost ofliving.
So it appears that your salaryis getting less and less and
less, even though you got smallincrements of, you know, your

(10:13):
little raises for minimum wageof $7 to $8 or whatever.
But that's like comparing thetortoise and the hare.
You know what I mean.
Both of them are makingprogress, but at different rates
, you know, and the cost ofliving is moving a lot faster

(10:34):
than the amount that we'regetting as raises in our checks
to live, whether you're makingminimum wage or you're making
more than minimum wage.
It's just not, you know, it'sjust not following suit.
So I also wanna talk about herehow you have money that is

(11:01):
given to these constructioncompanies and this money that's
given to construction companiesto build this affordable housing
, and you take this money andnothing's being done.
Why look for housing or placesto build affordable housing in

(11:26):
areas where people are going todispute it?
Why why not just fix up theneighborhoods in which they live
and make those neighborhoodsbetter, Eliminate the entire
concept of the ghetto, the slumyou know what I mean.
Make these neighborhoods clean,build nice houses, affordable

(11:52):
housing right where they live,right where they live.
Tear down those rat infestedhousing and dilapidated
buildings.
That's been there and vacantand abandoned buildings.
That's been there.
I could ride through so manyneighborhoods in New York City

(12:13):
and see buildings that could betorn down and nice buildings
that could be built up.
We don't have to live next doorto millionaires.
No, we don't have to live nextdoor to the 1%, as they say or
we don't have to live next doorto the people making 200 and
something thousand dollars.
No, we don't have to.

(12:34):
We're quite well in our owncommunity.
Just give us affordable, cleanhousing.
You know we're not buildingthis stuff.
Put Walmart in the neighborhood.
We're definitely gonna be there.
Put a Macy's or whatever storesthat you know these communities

(12:55):
like to shop at.
Bring them to the neighborhood.
We're gonna work there anyway.
Bring them to the neighborhoodand fix the housing.
It's not that complicated, butinstead you rather play a game.
You're using the people aspawns.
It's nasty, it's disgusting,it's sad and you know it's

(13:20):
hurtful.
As for the migrants, you knowwhat I mean.
If you escaped a poor form ofliving and you made it to United
States, well, you know morepower to you, but just
understand that we have peoplehere.
We also need to take care, andthis government is about playing

(13:43):
games right now.
You know what I mean, and so wehave to nip this in the bud.
I don't know who said or whothought it was a great idea to
bring more people in, and youalready got 40,000.
As I said early, 40,000homeless people in New York.
So now you're bringing 113,000migrants in.

(14:07):
Okay, let me ask you a question.
You put them in five-starhotels and you immediately say
let them work, give them a paperso they can work, but are they
classified as homeless?
Of course they are.
They're homeless because theirliving situation is only
temporary.

(14:28):
The problem is how fast theirsituation is escalating in
comparison to people that havealready been here, that's been
waiting three years for Section8 voucher, that's been living in
homeless shelters for three,four, five and six years.
This is the problem.

(14:49):
What about these people?
What about the residents thatlive here now?
So listen, guys, I got a real,real breakdown of the video.
I'm not exposing anything.
I'm not saying anything that'snot already out there.

(15:11):
These people are telling onthemselves and I'd like to thank
PBSorg for bringing this outand to do this whole episode.
This was a great episode.
It enlightened me to a lot ofthings that I didn't know about
and let me tell you it's gonnaenlighten you.

(15:31):
You must watch it.
Click on the bottom link onthis episode here and get busy.
This is your Potholes OG GOATand we are signing out.