Email to Baruch College about HRA.

I always treat everyone at HRA and Baruch College with the utmost respect at all times.

It’s America I’m allowed to complain online.

The NYPD and New York City law enforcement pay people to lie and say Mark Pine is rude.

Greetings Baruch College,

Regardless if I get the MetroCard money or not, Baruch College has been more than generous with me. 

I’m very appreciative. 

One thing that surprises me is HRA or whoever is in charge of it. 

There has to be tens of thousands of college students who are on public assistance. 

I can’t believe that HRA is going to block their MetroCards. 

HRA used to send the MetroCard money when school was open and closed. Then they only sent it when school is open. Now they don’t send it at all. 

I just checked my Access HRA and the MetroCard money hasn’t been sent as of January 30, 2025. 

Another crazy change HRA made is with the storage. 

There are a ton of us who get our little storage rooms paid for by HRA. 

HRA used to have us bring in the bill once or twice a year or when there was a raise in the cost. 

Now we have to bring in our storage invoices in person once a month. 

The biggest storage company in Manhattan just moved the day they send the invoices from the 7^th to the 17^th of the month. 

I just can’t imagine tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people have to run down at the end of every month and spend the day at HRA. 

Also, sometimes you have to bring the storage invoice twice because it gets lost in the shuffle. 

I’m the ultimate optimist. 

I believe I’m going to be a millionaire one day. 

The glass is half full. 

Nonetheless there are so many roadblocks for people on public assistance and homeless people that the general public doesn’t know about. 

Then they bash us on social media, etc. 

One last good one I keep hearing on social media is that the government is going to cancel EBT/SNAP.

There are millions of people in New York City alone being fed by EBT/SNAP. 

There are not that many minimum wage or any type of jobs available for all those people. 

I have zero criminal record. 

I don’t do anything illegal. 

If they cancel all of the food programs the food stealing would be out of control unless they make the laws stricter.

Anyway, I’m trying to make money in my spare time to get out from under this situation. 

I still have compassion for the people in these situations.

The irony about all this is that a lot of the people on social media bashing people on public assistance are going to end up on it one day due to AI, robots, etc.

Thank you and have a great day. 

Mark Pine