{"id":2025,"date":"2026-06-25T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T19:06:23","slug":"protest-tonight-demand-investigation-into-hotel-to-shelter-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/protest-tonight-demand-investigation-into-hotel-to-shelter-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest Tonight! Demand Investigation into Hotel to Shelter Scams!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Protest Against Councilperson Crystal Hudson
\nThurs. June 25, at 6 pm
\nMEET UP POINT!
\n595 Dean Street
\nPacific Park Playground
\n(between Carlton and Vanderbilt Aves)<\/strong><\/h6>\n
OUR DEMANDS:\u00a0<\/strong>
\nInvestigate<\/strong>
\nHotel to Shelter Scams<\/strong><\/h6>\n

We believe that the indictment of\u00a0<\/span>Frank Carone, former Chief of staff of Eric Adams, based upon a Migrant Shelter<\/a> <\/span>called\u00a0<\/span>Microtel Inn by\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/u>Wyndam<\/em><\/u><\/strong>, of hotels turning into shelters, is just\u00a0<\/span>scratching the surface\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>of this multi-billion-dollar industry, where corporations are lining their pockets.<\/p>\n

This is a system that has been in the works and plans since the\u00a0<\/span>Migrant crisis began (created partly by Mayor Adams)\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>and is now continuing, as the City Council has\u00a0<\/span>failed to create housing\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>for the most needy despite all of the changes that have afforded faster and cheaper development.<\/p>\n

Couple that with the\u00a0<\/span>continued rise of the homeless as the luxury towers standing empty soar above us<\/strong>, and now the\u00a0<\/span>Hotel to Shelters popping up like popcorn,<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>one can see that there is something deeply wrong with the City\u2019s plan in addressing the homelessness crisis.<\/p>\n

Thus, we are\u00a0<\/span>demanding that Councilperson Crystal Hudson<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(who campaign benefited from over a\u00a0$100,000 in Independent Expenditures from the Hotel industry) conduct\u00a0<\/span>an investigation into these Hotel to Shelters<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>starting with the Red Roof on Flatbush and Ramada by Wyndham on Empire.<\/p>\n

The owner of both shelters,\u00a0<\/span>Mr. Nahalkumer Gandhi has at least 19 such hotels (all created after 2020<\/strong>)<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>with 15 scattered all over Brooklyn. Thus, instead of the City making these shelter choices based upon a Fair Share Analysis they are simply following where these developers are creating hotels and then conveniently stating that the locations are fine, regardless of what situation is at hand.<\/p>\n

In fact, it appears they are entering into these contracts way before some of these hotels are even built or opened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Protest Against Councilperson Crystal Hudson Thurs. June 25, at 6 pm MEET UP POINT! 595 Dean Street Pacific Park Playground (between Carlton and Vanderbilt Aves) OUR DEMANDS:\u00a0 Investigate Hotel to Shelter Scams We believe that the indictment of\u00a0Frank Carone, former Chief of staff of Eric Adams, based upon a Migrant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","category-eyes-on-cb9"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}