If you’re thinking of staying in a New York City hotel, don’t. Because you don’t know who stayed there before and it could be the same guy you see urinating on the street before going back to his crack pipe.
And some of those hotels, as I wrote previously, are owned by Islamic terrorist states and they’re hellholes.
Row Hotel, a classic Times Square hotel that promises “comfort and security while away from home” turned into another migrant hellhole. Messages at the formerly stylish hotel described everything from a 10-year-old girl drunk alone in the room to an intruder carrying a machete.
“Every day, we find about ten kids alone in their hotel rooms, either drinking or doing drugs. Weapons will be in the room,” a worker described.
The show goes on under Mamdani who’s going to spend $1.9 billion on hotels to house the homeless with no more time limit on how long they can stay.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has inked a new nearly $1.9 billion contract with the city’s hotel industry to provide emergency shelter to homeless families over the next three years, The Post has learned.
That’s a sizable chunk of the police or fire department budget. But New York City can’t compete with Los Angeles. Now when it comes to spending absolutely surreal amounts of money on homeless services.
A hotel near Venice Beach that the city bought to transform into homeless housing remains empty after years of drawn-out delays and a ballooning budget.
The former Ramada Inn on Washington Avenue has sat mostly vacant since 2020 as officials have scrambled to secure permits, subsidies and construction financing.
Now the price tag for the stalled project is approaching $20 million, after the city plunked down a relatively paltry $8 million for the property in 2020.
The skyrocketing tab to deliver the 32-unit project means rooms for the homeless will cost about $625,000 each.
I’ve spent a lot of time covering the sheer uncut insanity that is LA’s ridiculously corrupt homeless spending.
$625,000 per unit for the homeless isn’t even excessive.
The homeless services department currently has a $929 million contract with the Hotel Association, running from Jan. 1, 2025, to June 30, providing up to 10,651 hotel rooms for homeless families.
Los Angeles then launched a pilot program to build 8×8 aluminum sheds for the homeless for only $130,000 each and then tent encampments for the homeless for only $2,600 per tent each month.
My modest suggestion for solving the homelessness crisis is to arrest and lock up everyone involved in homeless services and give their houses to the homeless.
We’ve tried everything else. Let’s try something that can actually work.
