NYC shelter shut-out: Interview w/ homeless working mother

[Glidescube]

no home but, yeah but she can afford g-unit

[blastedontape]

@Glidescube u can find a bootleg gunit hoodie for 10 bucks by MSG

[msiloveshoes]

This is exactly the reason why I left NY over 22 years ago. Rent was high in the 80s and see nothing, nothing has changed. Rent is STILL sky high and nobody moves. There is not enough affordable housing or available housing. Now there is no 'rent controlled' program. It was like this 20+ years ago & see no improvements since I left. Some people got some serious decisions to make, stay homeless or leave NY. Sometimes U got to leave to do better - to experience a better quality of life!

[musicalidea]

@msiloveshoes You forgot to mention that service sector wages are still at rock bottom. Until working people get together again in NYC and challenge the plutocratic elite like they did in the early 20th C, we can expect more and more people to enter into homelessness, working or not.

[SuperHerbalTea]

Mayor Bloomberg sucks

[AlexB1001]

Such is the product of a large civilization. When the city claims they can "go stay with friends", its not because they don't give a shit or they are ignorant, it's because they have a FUCK LOAD on their plates. Hell, I don't think any society is even near to perfect in today's world, but having said that, you people should try running a city.

[AlexB1001]

Such is the product of a large civilization. When the city claims they can "go stay with friends", its not because they don't give a shit or they are ignorant, it's because they have a FUCK LOAD on their plates. Hell, I don't think any society is even near to perfect in today's world, but having said that, you people should try running a city.

[mrsevans1000]

A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

~Samuel Johnson, Boswell: Life of Johnson

[mrsevans1000]

What qualifies someone as eligible?

[Modacolorist]

@mrsevans1000 - This policy is the city's way of covering up homelessness. Their goal is NOT to provide for the people. Bloomberg wants to make NYC for the rich only, which makes no sense because the poor & working class are the support system for the blood sucking rich people.

[starkidd103]

@Modacolorist they put there self there you stupid mutha fucka.....! 

[Michael1986m]

its very sad, but the problem comes from within, i can hear people saying the old story that the US has tremendous wealth..i mean look at the taxes u are paying, the money u old, the media have brainwashed people into spending, there is no wealth only debt, and the problem now days is not only in the us, its in europe aswell, the problem is big, money are concentrated by few people and other ordinary people get what its left

[unytcommsys]

@Michael1986m YEP!

[musicalidea]

@Michael1986m Around 2004-2005, the top 10% possessed 80% of all financial assets [and] the bottom 90% held only 20% of all financial wealth (things are much worse now).

[randy109]

I've always been a fairly Conservative Libertarian. That said... It's shameful that we (USA) have such tremendous wealth and still have hungry and homeless people among us. I understand about "personal responsibility" and the results of bad "life choices" but that still doesn't end our responsibility to our fellow Americans. We should ALL be ashamed of the plight of our less fortunate, regardless of how they wound up there.

[JJJadm]

i heard they are sending all homeless people from nyc to florida however there is no help here in florida either,it's not fair.

[JJJadm]

long time ago nyc allow everybody to stay at shelters,i used to stay at Roberto Clemente in the bronx they never asked me for papers.

[Sixteen0five]

T-thats terrible, Im sorry. How did your parents die?

[uratoy2008]

the shelter system sux and peaple who work their don't care ...in cali you live at a shelter and you gotta pay to live in a shelter

[graizur]

G-G-G-G-UNIT!!! Have Fitty pay her bills!

[Texas903G]

Aww yea wear my clothes so I can get paid and the hell with you celebreties are sitting on alot of bread they dont give a lovely f**k sad but true.

[NYCman530]

Where's the father? Why can't she get the state to go after him for child support payments? At least she's working.

[DesiArnez6]

Even if the state did, the City of New York confiscates the entire check, (except for $50 that you get to keep) the rest to pay your shelter expenses, so it wouldn't help much ;) (And thats if the father is even alive, and wasn't wounded or killed in combat )

Probably won't work for long, everyone I knew in the shelter lost their job eventually. Took us 2 years to eventually be eligible. With no family or friends anywheres near this city, our job was lost b/c of 9/11, They put us through hell.

[arrowhead15]

my bro has autism