Now, I`m not suggesting we`re going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we`ve come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well.
Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who`s eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.
Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we`re going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before.
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.
Obviously, people feel strongly about their home communities and they tend to see their own risks to the exclusion of others. Our job is to balance.
