Greensboro is evidently part of the solution to New York City’s homeless problem according to an article in The New York Post.
New York City has a program that gives homeless people a bus ticket and a will pay rent for them for a year, where ever they go, as long as they go somewhere.
Newark has evidently gained a considerable number of homeless people due to this program and have threatened to sue.
Closer to home, the mayor of Fayetteville, which reportedly got more homeless people from New York than any other city in North Carolina, was quoted as saying that he has not ruled out legal action.
However, Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan is not too worried about it and said, “suing them would be an over reaction.”
Vaughan said, “According to the article New York sent four people here and I don’t know if four people is actionable, besides they gave them rent for a year.”
She said, “If they came down here with a year’s worth of rent, I don’t see any point in suing New York.”
She said we have no way to know who they are or if they have applied for services.
Vaughan said more concerning to her was the persistent rumor that when people get out of prison in Raleigh they are given bus tickets to Greensboro.
Vaughan said that she had spoken with City Councilmember Michelle Kennedy, who runs the Interactive Resource Center, a daytime shelter for homeless people, and Kennedy said she had never been able to find any evidence that the rumor was true.
Vaughan said that if it is true that New York was paying for homeless people to travel to Greensboro she assumed it was because they had friends or family here and that Greensboro wasn’t chosen at random.
So other mayors may be all worked up over the idea of New York shipping some of their homeless population to them, but Vaughan doesn’t seem too concerned about it.
We do not need these homeless people nor do we need the trouble the New York mayor need to be sue for doing this to city’s it’s wrong and you dumb council people are trying to fine a way to let them in here we the tax pays say hell no”……………….we have had enough.
Mayor Nancy Vaughn doesn’t care about Greensboro, she only cares if anyone is offended by her liberal agenda.
Vaughn is a darn lier
Why not let Vaughn take care of the people they send here at her home. Sponsor them and pay for their upkeep. If they go through with this crazy thing.
And this is why the voters need to get out and vote worthless Nancy OUT of office!! New York probably gave her money to go along with this! Our city already looks nasty to visitors from other states. All the beggars on every stinking corner! I heard one set of visitors from out west saying they would never come here again! They said it was a nasty city and they were offended by being begged for money at every turn. Do you blame them?
No matter where you go in Greensboro, there are beggars. Everywhere! No one wants to see that. We can’t support our own homeless, why would we want New Yorks?! If Nancy cared about this city even a fraction, she would stop it! She doesn’t care though. Most people are just too blind to see her for what she is.