{"id":660804,"date":"2026-03-17T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/660804\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T00:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:08:13","slug":"nyc-burning-81k-per-homeless-person-with-nothing-to-show-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/660804\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC burning $81K per homeless person \u2014 with nothing to show for it"},"content":{"rendered":"

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli just revealed<\/a> that New York City is now spending $81,000 per street homeless person \u2014 in a town where average take-home pay is no higher than $40,600.<\/p>\n

And Mayor Zohran Mamdani want to spend more: City Hall projects it to hit nearly $97,000 in the coming year.<\/p>\n

Overall, this spending has skyrocketed from $102 million in 2018 to $368 million last year, up 320% even as the street-homeless population grew just 26%.<\/p>\n

\"Bar Office of the New York State Comptroller<\/p>\n

These figures don\u2019t include about $500 million a year for supportive housing, mental health co-response teams, the NYPD\u2019s homeless-clearing work or other outlays for this population. <\/p>\n

DiNapoli warns the spending spurt came without any \u201cfocus on where resources are going and what services are working.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s certain that almost none of the $81,000 actually benefits these street people: Outreach workers get paid to count the \u201cunsheltered\u201d and to try coaxing them into shelter or arranging some kind of housing they\u2019ll accept.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is just one particularly damning example of how New York\u2019s nonprofit-industrial complex has morphed the city\u2019s multibillion-dollar outlays in the name of fighting homelessness into a jobs program that simply pretends to manage it.<\/p>\n

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As city Comptroller Scott Stringer puts it, \u201cIt\u2019s a clarion call to make sure every dollar counts.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the kind of madness that Team Mamdani refuses to rein in, insisting that the only solution is more revenue \u2014 higher taxes<\/a> \u2014 to feed the beast.<\/p>\n

The city doesn\u2019t need a dime more; it needs to finally start cutting programs that don\u2019t work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli just revealed that New York City is now spending $81,000 per street homeless person…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":660805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,32458,4691,32459,7265,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,618,81288,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":["post-660804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-department-of-homeless-services","tag-editorial","tag-homeless-shelters","tag-homelessness","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-taxes","tag-thomas-dinapoli","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116241609900662756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}