California “lost” $24 billion that was allocated for the homeless problem as the money was not tracked and new housing was not built. Jimmy Dore said that it was essentially a money laundering operation. JW Williams
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Summary by JW WIlliams
California Newsom’s executive order follows a Supreme Court ruling that allows the removal of homeless encampments even though there is no shelter space available. Newsom is blaming the problem on local officials when he ran his campaign on “solving” homelessness for over a decade. He has been Governor of California for 5 years and has had plenty of time and money to remedy the problem.Â
There are 171,000 homeless people in California, and 25% of them are children.
California “lost” $24 billion that was allocated to remedy homelessness. The funds were not spent on building homes and apartments. Dore said that spending on homelessness under Newsom is a money laundering operation.Â
Newsom has no solution of where to send the homeless people; his goal is to make them less visible. Critics suggest that Newsom is trying to clean up the state’s homeless problem to help Kamala Harris, who has been called Biden’s border czar, in her bid to become President.Â
Newsome says he wants to address the ‘underlying problem’, but fails to define the issues: many homeless people have mental illness, but there is a lack of of psychiatric hospitals. Drug and alcohol addiction are also a major problem. Many people go broke if they become sick. Another problem is that 40% of homeless people work at jobs, but live in poverty. There is a shortage of housing and rent is too high. California needs affordable housing, a living wage, healthcare that doesn’t bankrupt people, mental health facilities and drug rehab centers. Newsom and California Democrats helped create the problem through leftist policies such as free needles.Â
Jimmy Dore said that homelessness across America could end if $20 billion was spent efficiently.Â
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California Spent $24 Billion on Homelessness and It Canât Measure the Impact
California has devoted $24 billion to homelessness programs during the last five years. The problemâs only gotten worse.Â
Since 2019, homelessness in the state rose by almost 20% to more than 181,000. California also has the nationâs highest share of âunshelteredâ homeless, or people living in makeshift encampments or cars rather than indoor shelters.Â
Now, confirming what many Californians undoubtedly suspected, the state auditor issued a report questioning the effectiveness of all that spending. One example: The audit revealed that the California Interagency Council on Homelessness, the stateâs key coordinating body, hasnât maintained up-to-date financial tracking since 2021.
The council âhas neither ensured the accuracy of the information in the state data system, nor has it used this information to evaluate homelessness programsâ success,â the auditorâs office said.Â
The report casts doubt on Californiaâs ability to address one of its most intractable problems â and spending is only set to continue. The state and its municipalities have raised billions of dollars to fund homelessness programs, in part by raising sales taxes and selling bonds. In March, Governor Gavin Newsom narrowly won voter approval for a more than $6 billion bond initiative to battle drug addiction and mental illness, as well as build more affordable housing.
To many observers, the closeness of that vote suggests growing public frustration over the stateâs costly efforts to alleviate the crisis and its track record of mixed results.Â
According to the audit, only two of five programs assessed in detail were probably cost-effective. One converts motels and other existing buildings into homes, while the other provides financial housing assistance to at-risk families. Auditors couldnât determine the efficacy of the other three.Â
To identify which programs are worth funding and replicating, state auditor Grant Parks urged the California Legislature to require government agencies to report the costs and results of spending on homelessness. The interagency homelessness council agreed with the recommendations and identified steps to implement them, according to the report.
The council is working to enhance data collection with local jurisdictions to measure outcomes more effectively, said Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, which oversees the homelessness council.Â
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Put those INVADERS in HIS personal residence and yard, AND the governor’s mansion if they still have one. Do the same for his witch aunt Pelosi.
The State of CA adopted a corporate-style constitution in 1879 which has been amended hundreds of times to fit whatever the special interests want. The disastrous Reynolds vs Sims case in the 1960s took state senate representation away from the rural areas in favor of the urban areas which now dominate CA politics. These leftists have run this once-great state into the ground, and are in a state of INSURRECTION against the US Constitution. The New California 51st State movement is actively working to restore Constitutional governance by splitting the conservative rural areas from the leftist urban areas.
If you build it, they will come. And they did and now you want to unbuild it.