Bloomberg Opposes Housing Subsidy For HIV Positive

Mayor Bloomberg wants Gov. Paterson to veto a bill that would let low-income people getting housing assistance from the H.I.V./AIDS Services Administration pay no more than 30% of their incom e on rent. Bloomberg says the bill would cost the city an extra $15 million it doesn't have. (Besides, he's already committed $41.5 million in taxpayer money to make Governors Island pretty!) "As sympathetic as we are to the people who this would help, this nevertheless is yet another unfunded mandate from Albany, and one that will have significant immediate and long-term costs," Bloomberg spokeswoman Jessica Scaperotti told the Times. State Senator Tom Duane said the bill could actually save the city money by reducing the number of evictions and placements in emergency housing.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on April 30, 2010 12:35 PM

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dadoc

WTF entitles someone to a rent subsidy based on a viral infection, other than a "protected class" status? What about Hep C, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, S/P amputation, subarachnoid hemorrhage et al? Protections are out there. Special treatment for political expediency is an anathema to democracy.

fosiacat

why don't you assholes try living in someone else's shoes before coming to quick judgments??

governors island is a disaster and needs that funding.

jles

Bloomberg is totally right. Get serious.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

Now Quinn will have to talk both sides of her mouth as she did with ST. Vincent. went to one rally to flap her large mouth on how outrage she is and yet did NOTHING to stop it.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

Christine Quinn also opposed it but now that she is running for mayor 2013 she changed her mind. So taxpayers will paid for her mayoral ambitions and her slush funds

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/04/is_christine_quinn_turning_her.html