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Re "For Some Landlords, Real Money in the Homeless" (front page, Feb. 9):
New Yorkers should be disturbed at excessive costs for renting threadbare rooms without a bathroom or a kitchen. It was worth the landlords' while to offer premiums of $25,000 to long-term, market-rate renters simply to move out. But that's only one side of the story.
At well-run, client-centered nonprofit shelters, staff members committed to serving homeless people run very good operations, providing quality facilities and operating in tight margins.
Unlike the landlords in the article, most nonprofit shelters aren't guaranteed a profit but are constantly in jeopardy of missing an imposed performance goal that can result in a reduction in payment.
In recent years city financing of these shelters has been at constant risk. No money has been available for increased staffing costs, so many nonprofit shelter employees haven't seen pay raises for several years. It's far less expensive, and more effective, to finance a rental subsidy program to move homeless people from shelters to permanent private or supportive housing.
The city's recent explosion of homeless people tracks directly with eliminating the Advantage rental subsidy program, which, though it could have been improved, helped tens of thousands of homeless people obtain housing at far lower taxpayer cost at a fair market rate profit to landlords.
BOBBY WATTS
Executive Director Care for the Homeless
New York, Feb. 12, 2013
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