Hotel Ethical Dilemmas

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The shelter's that social services send the families too are not only priced ridiculously however are incredibly horrifying to picture families staying in. The Emergency Assessment Unit, otherwise known as the EAU, are supposed to place people in shelters that will provide a safe place for those in need. This is not the case, and although the original thought is ethical the circumstances that these innocent families are placed are unethical. In the text, the Martinique Hotel charges each person in poverty to stay a nightly fee, usually around $63 a night. This rounds to about $1900 a month. If they want visitors they must pay $12.40 for husbands and $16.70 for grandparents or extended family to stay the evening (59). Families are placed here and are expected …show more content…

Some diseases a person can get when exposed to raw sewage are Campylobacteriosis, Giardia, Solmonella, Cryptosporidium and Hepatitis A. Would anyone want their children or even themselves to be around that many diseases? That's not even all of the diseases that are included. How is it fair for people to live like this? Of course, social services hide their tracks somehow, by having the Family Hotel Inspection program, however the hotels are notified before inspection so they can warn tenants and fix things that will make them fail inspection. When speaking about getting more shelters on Staten Island, the Borough President opposed it. "'A jail is preferable to a shelter' he explains, 'because it's self contained.' He notes that 'it doesn't spill over' into the surrounding of the neighborhoods" (106). This thought is completely ignorant. A borough president would prefer children to be living in a 4 mile radius of drug dealers, rapists, child molesters, etc. Then live in a 4 mile radius of people who just need a place to sleep at

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