{"id":158,"date":"2004-06-16T01:50:48","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T08:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2004-06-16T01:50:48","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T08:50:48","slug":"bloomberg-to-homeless-drop-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg to homeless: Drop Dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years of dumping unused properties to private developers, the city has announced it is damn tired of putting up homeless people who just <i>won&#8217;t get an apartment already<\/i>. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/16\/nyregion\/16homeless.html\">new plan<\/a>, which the <i>Times<\/i> has an advance copy of, recommends charging shelter residents. I don&#8217;t know if anyone has told the sharp tacks who wrote this one, but if the homeless could pay rent, they <i>would have an apartment already<\/i>. This gem is built with the presumptive logic that proper programming would involve &#8220;moving resources away from emergency spending to the real solutions, which are prevention and housing.&#8221; That&#8217;s fine, but they aren&#8217;t offering numbers, plans or financing to do this. A subsequent plan is promised, but considering the big outlay, and biggest impact, will be the production of housing, rather than the collection of rent from people <i>who don&#8217;t have a place to sleep<\/i>, allow us a moment of incredulity on the likelihood of quality follow up. We&#8217;ll hold our breath for a short moment to see if the city can follow through, but given the spirit of current issuance, we&#8217;ll reserve the right to call &#8216;bullshit&#8217; and offer a hearty &#8216;Fuck you, Mike.&#8217; Let&#8217;s hope there is good cause to retract this comment, but the past twenty years of publicly funding housing solutions don&#8217;t provide much in the way of hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of dumping unused properties to private developers, the city has announced it is damn tired of putting up homeless people who just won&#8217;t get an apartment already. A new plan, which the Times has an advance copy of, recommends charging shelter residents. I don&#8217;t know if anyone has told the sharp tacks who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}