Friday, August 27, 2010

Money Wasted in NYC's Shelters

On my budget letter from HRA(Human Resource Admin), it says that the state pays $1000 per adult and $500 per child to the facility where you stay. In my case $4026 is being given to the mouse infested, industrial park area, giant hotel room with a kitchenette(Bonus), per month. This is why you are required to have an open PA (Public Assistance) case. It pays for your stay at the shelter. So, given the amount of time the average working family stays at a shelter, around 180+ days, a whopping $24,156+ is being paid. Multiply that by the 500 give or take per family, in just the two building facility that I'm in temporarily. That is $12,078,000.00 in 6 months. I'm sorry but that is enough to pay a years worth of rent for every family in the two buildings. Multiply that again by the amount of family shelters in the city? Whew, that's an absolute waste of resources. No wonder I haven't got my State Tax Refund back 8 months after filing. Then, i won't lie, the quality of over 75% of the "Clients" in the shelter, couldn't fill out an application correctly, better yet able to speak and look professional enough for an interview at a job that could really pay the bills once the temporary assistance is over. No training set up for the countless number of unskilled. Just a BTW(Back to Work) program that is also flawed, I call it Adult-Sitting, pushing 10,000 plus people a day to apply for the same jobs or no jobs at all. Remember you are required to have an open PA case, which also means you are required to work at least 35 hours a week, or stay in these BTW programs for that same amount of time. But given the sudden swell of homeless families, there is little to no room in the resource room, which is about 15 computers, 40 seats, and over 200 people in attendance in that same room trying to use the same computers. Doesn't add up right?

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