left by plane to Paris (6332 dollars), Orlando (858.40), Johannesburg (2550.70), or more often to San Juan, Puerto Rico (484.20). This is not the road manager 's business or couples on their honeymoon, but families who are found to have no more a home and to which the City of New York has offered a plane ticket. One-way. L 'Bloomberg administration, for years struggling with the problem of homelessness, 2007 to present paid to 550 families return to their place of origin, thus making them out of the system of admission in the hostels, which costs $ 36,000 to the community 'year per family. Just a relative who lives elsewhere is prepared to accept his family. Many of them are long-time New Yorkers that trovatisi in trouble, ended up in hostels for the poor and now they have welcomed the proposal to move elsewhere for free. Others have just arrived and are happy to go home. "I did not expect that New York was like that," said Hector Correa, who last week was in a homeless shelter and Tuesday is back in Puerto Rico. Hector, his partner, Elizabeth Mojica, and their two young children, had arrived in New York in May to live by his mother. They had not found work, the expenses add up the mother and threatened to drive them away. Without a penny in his pocket, had ended up in the Bronx shelter for homeless families. "The person I spoke with told me that if I had a person from whom I could stay in Puerto Rico, would help me to go there," says Hector, who was a mechanic in the city of Carolina, on the northern coast of the 'island. In fact, they could go to the father of Elizabeth. "Now I can tornarea do things I can do." At the center reception, social workers ask families if they are able to go and live elsewhere. If a family says he has relatives willing to accept them and social workers is confirmed, the family can take a plane, bus or train within a few hours. The family's flight to San Juan Correa cost less than $ 1000. A family with 10 children accepted the 'offer to return to Puerto Rico with a JetBlue flight non-stop. A pair of Mi chigan, adventurous as unfortunate, had come to New York to seek work and a new life. They gave him $ 400 in petrol vouchers to go home. An 'other couple has agreed to move to France with her three children to join her family. The cost of the trip, $ 6332, including five were airline tickets to Paris and five rail tickets for the town of Granville, north-west of the country. The municipality, which allocated $ 500,000 's years for this program, you entrusted a' local travel agent, Austin Travel, prenotarei tickets for domestic flights one way. The Department of Homeless Services is concerned, however, the organization 's international flights. There are no limits with respect to the place where a family can be sent, but families may refuse to 'stay in the dorms offertae citizens. Families games so far have been direct in 24 countries on five continents, but particularly in Puerto Rico, Florida, Georgia and Caroline Islands. "We want to divert elsewhere the greatest number of families in need of assistance," says Vida Chavez-Downes, director of the Resource Room, the 'city office that helps families move. "We paid the visa, we went to the consulates, we have provided letters of support and pay for the passports to allow people to leave. To anyone who knocked on our door. " When a family leaves New York, city officials call to make sure it arrived safely. In some rare cases, anticipate the family up to four months rent, one month of storage, good for the 'furniture and the cost of' real estate agency. None of the families who have moved is more back in the dorms of the city. But there are critics. According to Arnold S. Cohen, president of Partnership for the Homeless, the program does not solve the underlying problems of his time led the tracheal famigliea come here. "It 's a solution purely cosmetic," he says, "We simply pass the problem of homelessness in an' other city. We take our people out of bed in the dormitory and moved to the sofa in the living room of an 'other family. In essence, this family is a family homeless. "
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