City Dumps Homeless With One-Way Tickets Elsewhere
• NY TimesThe Bloomberg administration, which has struggled with a seemingly
intractable problem of homelessness for years, has paid for more than
550 families to leave the city since 2007, as a way of keeping them out
of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family.
All it takes is for a relative elsewhere to agree to take the family in.
