{"id":213597,"date":"2021-03-29T01:47:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T22:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/end-the-corrupt-nyc-homeless-services-madness\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T01:47:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T22:47:58","slug":"end-the-corrupt-nyc-homeless-services-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/end-the-corrupt-nyc-homeless-services-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"#End the corrupt NYC homeless-services madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#End the corrupt NYC homeless-services madness<\/strong>”
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Last week\u2019s arrest of the founder of the city\u2019s largest shelter operator is a reminder that New York\u2019s vast outlays on the homeless are rife with corruption.<\/p>\n

The feds charged Victor Rivera in an alleged bribery and kickback scheme involving the Bronx Parent Housing Network, the month after his ouster from the nonprofit amid sexual-harassment and assault allegations. Rivera has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.<\/p>\n

This follows a similar recent corruption probe of major hotel-shelter operator Childrens Community Services as well as epidemic contract violations by Acacia Network.<\/p>\n

In less than four years, Rivera\u2019s agency amassed $274 million in shelter contracts from the city. As CEO, Rivera paid himself over $300,000 a year, but federal prosecutors allege that he \u201cearned\u201d far more by soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks from vendors doing business with his agency.<\/p>\n

City spending on the homeless has doubled and redoubled as Mayor Bill de Blasio has abandoned all \u201ctough love\u201d standards imposed under his predecessors. Homeless Services czar Steven Banks\u2019 rush to offer city-funded beds to any and all comers \u2014 no questions \u2014 has seen the shelter population explode.<\/p>\n

And this expansion has meant lax oversight and few controls against corruption, with the city contracting with dubious nonprofits and slumlords to lease decrepit apartment buildings for hundreds of millions of dollars a year.<\/p>\n

Any mayoral candidate who won\u2019t commit to reversing the de Blasio-Banks madness is endorsing endless increases in homelessness and ever-more waste and theft of taxpayer dollars.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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