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NYC pays $8B a year for nonprofits’ promises — let’s demand results

New York City spends $8 billion a year on social services like homeless shelters, addiction programs and senior centers — billions more than it spends on its police department.

The Department of Social Services, for example, cuts sizable checks each year: nearly $660 million to the Institute for Community Living and about $600 million to RiseBoro Community Partnership, for post-shelter affordable housing.

The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has funneled more than $1.2 billion to Public Health Solutions.

The Department of Homeless Services just ballooned its deal with the Hotel Association of New York to a staggering $1.9 billion over the next three years.

So what are we getting for all that money?

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Under the current system, NYC doesn’t pay the nonprofit contractors that provide these services for results.

It pays them for expenses: rent, salaries, office supplies and so on.

As long as the paperwork checks out, the check gets cut.

It doesn’t matter if the shelter helped keep someone off the street.

It doesn’t matter if the addiction program got anyone clean.

It doesn’t matter if the job training led to a job.

Get selected as the service provider, spend the money, do the work, file the........

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