No more room at the inn
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I'm sure there's more to the story. Perhaps "relocated" is a better word.
Homeless vets are being booted from NY hotels to make room for migrants: advocates
Nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants, says a nonprofit group that works with the vets.
The ex-military — including a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan — were told by the hotels at the beginning of the week that their temporary housing was getting pulled out from under them at the establishments and that they’d have to move on to another spot, according to the group and a sickened local pol.
“Our veterans have been placed in another hotel due to what’s going on with the immigrants,’’ said Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation.
Toney-Finch, a disabled military veteran, created YIT to raise awareness of premature births, as well as helping the homeless and low-income military service veterans in need of living assistance.
“One of the vets called me on Sunday,’’ she said.
“He told me he had to leave because the hotel said the extended stay is not available. Then I got another call.
“We didn’t waste any time,’’ the advocate said.
“That’s when we started on Monday to organize when and where to move them all.
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All 20 of the booted veterans have ended up at a Hudson Valley hotel about 20 minutes away, said Toney-Finch, who asked that The Post not name the site.
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They want to get paid’’ more, she said of the hotels, referring to what her group shells out to get the vets housing compared to what the city is paying for each migrant.“That’s so unfair, because at the end of the day, we are a small nonprofit, and we do pay $88 a day for a veteran to be there,” she said.
While it’s unclear what the city is paying upstate, various reported deals between the Big Apple and Manhattan hotels have called for payments such as $190 a night — part of an estimated $4.3 billion migrant price tag for taxpayers through spring 2024.
Adams began bussing migrants flooding the city to The Crossroads on Thursday — hours before a key federal immigration-rule change was set to take effect and feared to increase the influx even more.
Hizzoner’s move spurred a vicious war of words between Adams and officials in Orange and neighboring Rockland County, where the mayor also has threatened to bus migrants — till a lawsuit at least temporarily blocked the move.
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I'm sure there's more to the story. Perhaps "relocated" is a better word.
Homeless vets are being booted from NY hotels to make room for migrants: advocates
Nearly two dozen struggling homeless veterans have been booted from upstate hotels to make room for migrants, says a nonprofit group that works with the vets.
The ex-military — including a 24-year-old man in desperate need of help after serving in Afghanistan — were told by the hotels at the beginning of the week that their temporary housing was getting pulled out from under them at the establishments and that they’d have to move on to another spot, according to the group and a sickened local pol.
“Our veterans have been placed in another hotel due to what’s going on with the immigrants,’’ said Sharon Toney-Finch, the CEO of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation.
Toney-Finch, a disabled military veteran, created YIT to raise awareness of premature births, as well as helping the homeless and low-income military service veterans in need of living assistance.
“One of the vets called me on Sunday,’’ she said.
“He told me he had to leave because the hotel said the extended stay is not available. Then I got another call.
“We didn’t waste any time,’’ the advocate said.
“That’s when we started on Monday to organize when and where to move them all.
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All 20 of the booted veterans have ended up at a Hudson Valley hotel about 20 minutes away, said Toney-Finch, who asked that The Post not name the site.
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They want to get paid’’ more, she said of the hotels, referring to what her group shells out to get the vets housing compared to what the city is paying for each migrant.“That’s so unfair, because at the end of the day, we are a small nonprofit, and we do pay $88 a day for a veteran to be there,” she said.
While it’s unclear what the city is paying upstate, various reported deals between the Big Apple and Manhattan hotels have called for payments such as $190 a night — part of an estimated $4.3 billion migrant price tag for taxpayers through spring 2024.
Adams began bussing migrants flooding the city to The Crossroads on Thursday — hours before a key federal immigration-rule change was set to take effect and feared to increase the influx even more.
Hizzoner’s move spurred a vicious war of words between Adams and officials in Orange and neighboring Rockland County, where the mayor also has threatened to bus migrants — till a lawsuit at least temporarily blocked the move.
@George-K said in No more room at the inn:
I'm sure there's more to the story.
Homeless men bribed with $200 and booze in NY hotel veteran scam allegation; DA vows to investigate
In a disturbing turn of events, a group of homeless men say a well-known veterans’ advocate in the Hudson Valley region bribed them with cash, food and booze to pretend they were former military personnel who had been booted from a hotel in favor of migrants.
The seven men — who have not been named — were part of a group of 15 who were recruited from a Poughkeepsie homeless shelter to pose as traumatized veterans who allegedly had been kicked out of Newburgh’s Crossroads Hotel, the Mid Hudson News reported Friday.
A spokesman for State Attorney General Letitia James said their office is currently conducting a review of the matter.
“We’re aware of the situation and are reviewing the matter,” said the individual.
The lie was supposedly spearheaded by Sharon Toney-Finch, a decorated military veteran and director of the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation (YIT), who made headlines last week when she claimed she was forced to find the “vets” accommodations after they were asked to leave the Crossroads to make room for migrant arrivals.
In an interview with The Post on Friday, Orange County DA David Hoovler said he was planning on launching an investigation into how the money from the nonprofit group linked to the alleged scam was allocated.
“We’re looking at where the money went,” said Hoovler. “The big thing you’re gonna look at is, was money spent for the purpose it was raised and again, if she raised money for the needs of veterans, is the money actually going to the needs of veterans?”
When contacted by The Post, Toney-Finch flatly denied any wrongdoing: “No, I never hired. No, I never said paid anybody – who I had was veterans. And that’s all I’m gonna say. This is insane,” before hanging up the phone.
Her story unraveled earlier this week when she rebuffed Assemblyman Brian Maher’s requests for financial records proving that YIT funded the veterans’ new hotel stays.
The Crossroads has denied that veterans associated with the nonprofit ever stayed there.
