City warned it cannot keep using taxpayers’ money to fund its extensive property network
  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
    124·
    3 hours ago

    Only $162,000 per room yearly or $13,700 per month. What a bargain! Looks like their math is off though. At $352 per night x 14k rooms, they’re about $500 million short of $2.3B but maybe that’s bribery money that isn’t counted toward housing these people.

    According to Google, there are plenty of rooms at $100-$200 per night so why are they spending so much? Classic government ‘assistance’ where they make a big show of passing legislation and then barely any of the money alloted actually winds up where it’s supposed to and instead winds up in the pockets of some contracting company.

    • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
      181·
      3 hours ago

      It’d the telegraph. A Murdoch owned right wing rag that is just ginning up hate for immigrants in any way possible. I’d expect most of the article is made up.

  • Chill_Dan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    3 hours ago

    Damn and here I am paying my taxes like an idiot while I struggle to have a roof over my head.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      2·
      57 minutes ago

      And all these people did was spend months walking thousands of miles through inhospitable jungle, past deadly cartels and into the U.S. by Coyotes they hoped wouldn’t murder them, get shipped to New York by Texas and end up there in the winter. All for the crime of avoiding being murdered in their home country too.

      But I’m sure you have it super hard.