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tulipsandroses

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Sat Feb 15, 2020, 06:04 PM Feb 2020

Bloomberg on NYC Homelessness: A Total Lack of Accountability

This is an older article, but look for this to come back to haunt Bloomberg. More recent articles are out there about this but this article reflects what was happening at the time

Bloomberg on NYC Homelessness: A Total Lack of Accountability

Mayor Bloomberg and top officials finally commented to the heartbreaking New York Times series about Dasani, an 11-year-old homeless girl. But instead of acknowledging that NYC homelessness hit all-time-record levels on his watch, the mayor and his aides responded with evasions, distortions, and a refusal to accept responsibility.

Mayor Bloomberg made his remarks yesterday during part of his “legacy tour” – you can read his entire response here. And Deputy Mayors Linda Gibbs (principal architect of Bloomberg’s homeless policies) and Howard Wolfson took to the Wall Street Journal’s opinion pages today to mount their defense of the mayor – see here.
But nowhere in the mayor’s remarks or Gibbs and Wolfson’s spin will you find the most basic facts: the number of homeless people in NYC has soared to all-time record highs under Bloomberg; and the number of poor New Yorkers has also risen and remains at alarming levels. You can find most of the key facts and data in our recent presentation “Rising Family Homelessness in NYC,” available here.

Bloomberg and his top officials refuse to take responsibility not only for their failed policies, but also for the deplorable, hazardous conditions at the notorious Auburn family shelter where Dasanai and her family resided for three years – a shelter operated directly by the City under the watch of Bloomberg and Gibbs
Instead, Bloomberg stated, “This kid was dealt a bad hand. I don’t know quite why. That’s just the way God works. Sometimes some of us are lucky and some of us are not.”

Here are the highlights of the distortions and evasions in Bloomberg et al’s response:
1. Record and rising NYC homelessness: According to City data, there are now more than 52,000 homeless homeless people residing each night in the municipal shelter system, up 69% since Bloomberg took office. This is the largest number of homeless people in NYC since the City began keeping records more than three decades ago.

[link:https://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/bloomberg-on-nyc-homelessness-a-total-lack-of-accountability/|

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Bloomberg on NYC Homelessness: A Total Lack of Accountability (Original Post) tulipsandroses Feb 2020 OP
DECEMBER 18, 2013 ? Digging up dirt? left-of-center2012 Feb 2020 #1
The point is homelessness and poverty rose under his watch. Those were the years he was mayor tulipsandroses Feb 2020 #2
are you implying that his choie Feb 2020 #4
And I forgot to add, it has been discussed on cable news in recent days tulipsandroses Feb 2020 #3
Why do people who are poor I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2020 #5
 

left-of-center2012

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1. DECEMBER 18, 2013 ? Digging up dirt?
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 06:09 PM
Feb 2020
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tulipsandroses

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2. The point is homelessness and poverty rose under his watch. Those were the years he was mayor
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 06:18 PM
Feb 2020

As I said, there are more recent articles. NY Times wrote about this when he announced his campaign. As people start scrutinizing his record, it will come up.
This article paints a picture of what was happening. But you are free to search for more recent articles. There are quite a few. Bloomberg is campaigning on he can get things done. Homelessness and poverty rose under his watch. You betcha it will come up if he's saying he can get things done but homelessness and poverty rose under his watch.

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choie

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4. are you implying that his
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 07:11 PM
Feb 2020

performance as mayor of NYC shouldn't inform us?

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tulipsandroses

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3. And I forgot to add, it has been discussed on cable news in recent days
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 06:38 PM
Feb 2020

So if you think I'm digging for dirt, good luck with getting the Cable news folks to not talk about his record and policies. Good bad and the ugly. Surely people expect that his record as mayor will be looked at?

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I_UndergroundPanther

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5. Why do people who are poor
Sat Feb 15, 2020, 10:23 PM
Feb 2020

And the homeless get treated like shit?

They have to live in nightmare places that no one rich like Bloomberg and others never have to endure because they are rich.

Yet the rich pigs can Rob the poor and make shelters go to shit.

Why do they do it?

To warn workers fed up with abuse at the workplace and suffering financial abuse basically if you stop feeding us your labor and reject our control over your lives you might have to live where shit and puke clog your toilet and spills out on the floor..

Homelessness is the boogyman every pampered CEO implies to workers to create compliance and submission.


I hate rich abusive exploitative people.

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