Obviously if they have to be kicked out, there isn't a permanent dwelling available they can afford. So HTF is this a RTS? Your RTS only lasts for 90 days? The reason they're doing it is just as obvious, they have to make room for new refugees and they can't keep expanding the number they house indefinitely. Besides the ballooning cost is the staffing issue, as I mentioned in a prior post, every one of these shelters requires a healthy size staff to maintain it. Finding people who will do that is as hard or harder than finding home health care workers or CNAs, and they're competing for the same set of low skill, low pay workers.
It's exactly the same situation as what has gone on in hospitals over the last 30 years. Length-of-stay dropped from over a week to 3 days, although COVID bumped it up for a while.
Medicare will only pay for a few days where they determine "acute care" is needed, then you get bumped down to a SNIF if you still need care. After 100 days, they stop paying for that, unless you're a cripple like me who can qualify for long term care. The whole hospital biz outstripped the capacity to train doctors and nurses fast enough years ago. The shortage gets worse every year.
Now, improvements in medical fixes allowed this to occur without the mortality rate increasing, though that is starting to change now as average life span decreased for men in the last couple of years. Discharged patients did have homes to go back to though, so you didn't see them on the street.
Discharging people from shelters with no alternative housing means they go out on the street, where they certainly will be visible and come winter turning blue and showing up in the ER with frozen toes and fingers. The Mayors hope this will get more money from the State & Fed, but this seems unlikely, especially with Trump.
I would expect the ACLU to file a class action suit to stop this, but again I doubt it will be very successful, and it will take a while to get to the SCOTUS.
The Dem Convention is in Chicago. Reps are in Milwaulkee. I fully expect to see Tent Cities of Homeless & Migrants pop up like Mushroom on a damp day in Kennett Square, PA at both locations. New York I think offers a bus ticket to any homeless person who will leave the city.
During the Great Depression, the Bonus Army of WWI Vets marched across the FSoA to set up a huge Hooverville in Washington. It was violently removed by the FSoA Military under the command of Gen. Douglas Macarthur. George Patton was also part of the goon squad.
According to the history books, their numbers were in the 1000s. I think it's possible this could be exceeded by 3 orders of magnitude and numbers could measure in the 1,000,000s. Martin Luther King organized a Million Man March on Washington in the 60s. FSoA population in 1960 was half what it is now.
I hope there is a plan already in the works by advocates for Homeless & Refugees calling for a March and Occupation of both cities. However, I haven't heard of one yet, so I am hereby announcing a Diner Organizational effort and Fundraiser. I suggest we announce this on our main website, start a Go Fund Me page, get a Social Media page etc etc etc. I am willing to donate my copious free time and writing skills to getting this going. We will need many more of our friends from the Doomer Community with expertiese in video, SEO, IT, AI, blah blah blah.
Let's take the lead on this. It's something we can do. We just gotta get the snowball rolling. The snow is on the ground ready to be picked up. I will be adding this post to my blog, and I will record a video tonight for the YouTube channel. More ideas welcome.
Lets DO IT!
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/12/massachusetts-to-begin-enforcing-shelter-limits-00163041
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