The out-of-control street violence in New York has been escalating for years.
Now, after years of assaults and chaos, the mayor's office has finally decided to do something about it:
Mayor Eric Adams touted a $650 million plan to tackle homelessness and get mentally ill New Yorkers off the streets and out of subways during his State of the City speech Thursday - as he begged Albany for more help tackling the Big Apple's ongoing crisis.
The ambitious, five-year proposal — which is set to include a special new facility to house and treat mentally ill New Yorkers — follows a spate of frightening underground attacks that have plagued the transit system of late.
Six hundred and fifty million.
(Good thing New York City isn't in more than $100 billion in debt, right?)
The alleged facility "will offer shelter, and psychiatric care and substance abuse treatment for homeless mentally ill New Yorkers — and help them secure permanent housing":
The $13 million 'pilot program,' as described by a City Hall rep, would create a 100-bed supportive housing facility that would provide shelter to people leaving psychiatric facilities but are not yet ready to be fully live alone without support to continue their meds and treatment, officials said.
I'm sure the violent crazy people who don't want to stay in taxpayer-funded housing (see: Jordan Neely) will want to go to a voluntary asylum!
That proposal is "still very much in its infancy" with "no site lined up yet."
In the meantime, the city plans to more quickly up its homeless bed numbers, by a considerable margin:
The initiative would also add 900 'Safe Haven' beds, which will be spread across the city, to house the homeless and transition them to permanent housing — bringing the total to 4,900. Under the proposal, 100 beds will be added to serve runaway and homeless youth ages 21-24.
More beds! That's the solution to this problem! If only we had more beds, then illegals wouldn't be setting women on fire on the subway!
The city will also be adding more parks, and will "add an extra afternoon cleaning shift to 100 more hot spots in our parks throughout the city to make them even cleaner and safer for our children."
Good luck keeping up with the chaos, New York! Let us know when you're done buying more beds and hiring more social workers and want to start jailing criminals again.
P.S. Now check out our latest video 👇
