{"id":52138,"date":"2020-08-23T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/pandemic-homeless-horrors-expose-utter-failure-of-de-blasios-enabling-approach\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T03:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T00:11:00","slug":"pandemic-homeless-horrors-expose-utter-failure-of-de-blasios-enabling-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/pandemic-homeless-horrors-expose-utter-failure-of-de-blasios-enabling-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"#Pandemic homeless horrors expose utter failure of de Blasio\u2019s enabling approach"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Pandemic homeless horrors expose utter failure of de Blasio\u2019s enabling app<\/a>roach<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 22, 2020 |<\/span> 8:11pm <\/p>\n

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\n NYPD foot patrol walking past The Lucerne hotel, which is housing homeless individuals. <\/span>
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\n The pandemic continues to expose the rolling civic disaster that is Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s approach to homelessness.<\/p>\n

Last week, just days after he bowed to the fury of Upper West Side residents and vowed to start moving homeless out of hotels, downtown Brooklyn woke to find homeless being dumped in hotels there.<\/p>\n

The city ramped up its use of luxury and boutique hotels as shelters months ago, aiming to protect the homeless from the virus. Meanwhile, the NYPD \u2014 overstretched by the crime spike and likely under orders to lay off the homeless \u2014 has been turning a blind eye to encampments and other problems.<\/p>\n

The result: \u201canti-gentrification\u201d in such neighborhoods as the Upper West Side and Chelsea.<\/p>\n

Just two weeks ago, de Blasio was saying the Manhattan-hotel homeless would be staying put for months, until there is a vaccine or more effective treatment. But on Monday he seemed to bend, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s important to note that as the situation, the health situation, has continued to improve, we\u2019re going to start the process of figuring out where we can get homeless individuals back into safe shelter facilities and reduce the reliance on hotels.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Friday revealed that the \u201csolution\u201d involves things like turning the Hotel Indigo on Duffield Street in Brooklyn into permanent shelters.<\/p>\n

Nor does he yet offer a timeline for ending the Upper West Side\u2019s nightmare. Three hotels there \u2014 the luxury Belleclaire on Broadway, the Lucerne on West 79th Street and the more down-market Belnord on West 87th Street \u2014 are housing the mentally ill, registered sex offenders and \u201crecovering\u201d drug addicts. And locals have seen big upticks in public urination, open drug use and catcalling.<\/p>\n

Michele McDowall, a 39-year-old nanny, told The Post, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel safe anymore,\u201d adding that she was recently offered crack by two homeless men as she pushed a 2-year-old down Riverside Park at 79th Street.<\/p>\n

The situation is so bad, a Facebook<\/a> group has formed in which residents post photos of men peeing, masturbating and lying sprawled and passed out near the hotels, The Post reported.<\/p>\n

One longtime UWS resident, Eve Epstein, had a suggestion for de Blasio in a post on the West Side Rag blog: \u201cRather than preaching faux compassion, citizens should insist that our limousine liberal Mayor move his family into Hotel Lucerne \u2014 without his security detail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Midtown residents have reported visibly intoxicated, unmasked men getting into disputes with one another.<\/p>\n

In Chelsea, the homeless encampment at West 24th Street and Sixth Avenue has grown from two \u201cresidents\u201d pre-pandemic to 15 to 20 vagrants, who\u2019ve built makeshift shelters out of flower pots, plastic kiddie gates or shopping carts.<\/p>\n

The drug use and violence are rife there, too. \u201cThey take drugs and they pass out. They overdose,\u201d a woman who gave her name as Sharon and described herself as the \u201cmother\u201d of the group told a Post reporter. \u201cI call the ambulance and they go to the hospital, but they come right back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever he promises, de Blasio\u2019s plainly unwilling to address the root of all these problems: his administration\u2019s utter refusal to make tough love a real part of homeless policy.<\/p>\n

As the race to replace him heats up, all candidates need to explain how they\u2019ll move beyond this failed philosophy of appeasing the homeless\u2019 worst instincts.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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