[Real News] Coalition for the Homeless awarded $5 million to curb homelessness for Houston families

This ties into some other discussions here. In the broad sense this is another example of "effective altruism" as it's from the Bezos fund. This may just be window dressing to fluff Bezos' ego but I think most would still think it's a good thing for billionaires to use the their money to do something positive.

 

@Salvy
if you want people to respond and pretend to care about Houston (99ers care of course), post something about California or New York or any other city

they seem to enjoy the problems with the city of Houston and the state of Texas. They REALLY HATE Texas.

Not @pgabriel and me, we posted about Houston Crime many times.

Post about the rest of the country and the D&D will flap like salmon swimming upstream
@basso

 

related:

Texas firm that built NYC’s doomed migrant tent overcharged city more than $130K as part of COVID contract: audit

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/po...0221123-ujxtqam4xvcahlh4rjwm3j2dby-story.html

excerpt:

The Texas construction company hired to build Mayor Adams’ since-shuttered migrant tent campovercharged the city more than $130,000 as part of a separate contract related to COVID-19 vaccination sites, according to a new audit from Comptroller Brad Lander’s office.

The $136,468 in overpayments happened because the company, Galveston-based SLSCO, on several occasions used inflated rates and double billed the Department of Emergency Management for operating city-owned vaccination sites, Lander’s team found as part of the audit.

The brunt of the overpayments — $129,000 — were issued because SLSCO charged the city for administering 150 COVID shots per day at its pop-up sites in June and July 2021 even though the capacity was 100 doses, according to Lander.

In addition to the overpayments, the contractor received $23,861 in payments from the city without providing proper documentation for the expenses, Lander found.
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more at the link

 

In NY homeless stay in the hotels. I've seen FREE STORES in parks. Most people posting here never been to NYC. In TX you have ex-millionaires like Delonte West begging for money. GOOD LUCK

Trump had a bill. Preventing project housing from being built in the suburbs. Bad bill. Poor people already live in the burbs. City expensive. Keep em' in Katy and we coo.

 

If he has money to donate and still have generational wealth, he has money to pay more in taxes. Society as a whole making decisions through government has more informed decision making power in how to distribute aid, infrastructure spending etc. than billionaires on vanity projects.

 

Sure he could pay more in taxes and I have nothing against a more progressive income tax structure. At the same time though government is often slow to respond to problems particularly long term problems. Government is very inefficient also. If someone like Bezos can harness the same ability to build a major distribution network to solving issues like homelessness and food insecurity that should be encouraged.

 

Homelessness is problem in every major city in the US it's not just a West Coast or an East Coast problem. In flyover land here we have homeless. This isn't a problem that should just be considered a San Francisco problem but one that every city needs to deal with.

I think Houston has some good ideas regarding addressing it and this will help Houston address that.