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THE WORLD'S HOMELESS SHELTER Mon Jan 13, 2:09 AM ET New York City's 'park-your-butt-down, free-housing-for-the-homeless' policy is attracting attention: On any given night lately, more than 16% of the city's shelter dwellers are from out of town - some, from out of the country. Folks who march themselves into a homeless 'intake center' are entitled by force of law to a taxpayer-funded apartment, virtually no questions asked - in the borough, if not the neighborhood, of the supplicant's choice. How sweet a deal is that? Until last year, non-New Yorkers averaged just 5 to 6% of those seeking shelter at the Emergency Assistance Unit. But for the first 10 months of 2002, the out-of-towners numbered more than 16%. What happened? The Giuliani administration made applicants for tax-funded housing jump through hoops to get into the system. No more. Now the courts have reasserted themselves - that is, consent decrees dating to the Koch years are being enforced. The 'right to shelter' has returned. New York taxpayers are being played for world-class suckers by seekers of free shelter from around the nation - and the world...
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