& R.E. (ACT-VP) The Seven Deadly Sins Fact Sheet Edward Koch. Every day, new yorkers who are AIDS workers see the human toll that their mayor’s refusal to deal with a health crisis extorts from the sick. So they have no reason to believe the mayor has any sympathy for people with AIDS. Koch has stalled, ranted and raved, and in general done everything he could to avoid dealing with the AIDS crisis. • He has spent woefully little and at this point in time has left 8,000–10,000 P.W.A.’s (People With AIDS) homeless in the streets. At a recent city agency meeting city officials heard testimony that projected 33,000 homeless people with AIDS living on the streets of N.Y.C. by 1993. Congressmen were assured by representatives of the city that no one should worry, these people will be dying so quickly from lack of treatment that there will be no visible increase of homeless P.W.A.’s on the streets. Letting landlords warehouse apartments and letting city-owned buildings remain bricked up while he spends taxpayers’ money for rat-infested welfare rooms to the tune of $1500 a month per room for those homeless who manage to get help through city agencies.
