‘California Dream for All’: Bill to Give Illegals State-Backed, Interest-Free Homeowner Loans

California has a deficit of $73 billion. California has 181,399 homeless people, which accounts for 28% of the nation’s homeless population. On January 1, 2024, California became the first state to extend ‘free’ healthcare benefits to illegal aliens.

Now, Democrat Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula has introduced a bill to expand the California Dream for All Shared Appreciation Loans program that was originally intended to help low- and middle-income individuals buy a home. California already has a crippling problem with Americans citizens who are homeless. Arambula wants the program to include illegal immigrants. The bill would grant illegal aliens interest-free state loans to buy their first homes. The state-backed loans are worth up to 20% of the purchase price of a house or condominium. The loans don’t accrue interest or require monthly payments. Instead, when the mortgage is refinanced or the house is sold again, the borrower pays back the original amount of the loan plus 20% of the increase in the home’s value. Arambula’s bill would allow money from California’s general fund or other state fund may be appropriated to pay this program.

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It’s the “California Dream for All.”

Well… not all, exactly, but the swarm of military-age migrants who are illegally crossing into the Golden State from Mexico are sure thrilled with Assembly Bill 1840.

The bill was introduced earlier this year by Democrat Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula and would grant the law-breakers interest-free state loans to buy their first homes, even as thousands of homeless Americans blanket California’s streets with tents.

According to the Los Angeles Times, “The California Dream for All Shared Appreciation Loans program that launched last March by the California Housing Finance Agency offered qualified first-time home buyers with a loan worth up to 20% of the purchase price of a house or condominium.”

“The loans don’t accrue interest or require monthly payments,” the Times explains. “Instead, when the mortgage is refinanced or the house is sold again, the borrower pays back the original amount of the loan plus 20% of the increase in the home’s value.”

But what about the nearly 100,000 migrants who’ve invaded San Diego in the past six months alone? How will American citizens residing in California pay for their dreams to come true?

It’s that “ambiguity” that Arambula hopes to clear up with the updated AB 1840.

“It’s that ambiguity for undocumented individuals, despite the fact that they’ve qualified under existing criteria, such as having a qualified mortgage,” Arambula told the Times. “Underscores the pressing need for us to introduce legislation.”

The revised bill now stipulates that an applicant under the California Dream for All Program “shall not be disqualified solely based on the applicant’s immigration status.”

“Without the explicit status, undocumented individuals may be discouraged or left out of the opportunity to participate, Arambula said,” according to the Times.

And God forbid we discourage illegal migrants.

“Homeownership has historically been the primary means of accumulating generational wealth in the United States,” Arambula said. “The social and economic benefits of homeownership should be available to everyone.”

To EVERYONE, and California citizens should pay for it.

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Gateway Pundit:      https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/illegal-aliens-get-interest-free-home-loans-under/




Portland: Doctor Blames Leftist City Leaders for Lack of Police after Attack by a Homeless Man

Portland, Oregon: Dr. Mary Constantino, a 50-year old radiologist, was the victim of an unprovoked attack by a homeless man who threw an aluminum sports water bottle that hit her face and knocked her out. Her male companion chased off the attacker. Portland has homeless and open air drug problem. Portland was also the site of Antifa riots every night for months during the Trump administration. In May 2023, local authorities in Oregon considered calling in the National Guard to help with the city’s homeless issue.

Dr. Constantino blamed the city’s ‘defund the police’ program for the poor response time by the police to the situation. Fox News reported that Portland police were already on 26 active calls and had 52 calls holding when Costantino was attacked. The doctor said, “We don’t have enough police force to protect our citizens, and we did this to ourselves.” She added, “If we don’t have police officers to come to the side of somebody who is under attack, then we’re all on our own.” The deterioration of public safety in Portland has now led her to change her voting habits from Democrat to Republican.

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  • Mary Costantino, 50, was attacked last Friday night in an unprovoked assault in Portland after a man threw a metal water bottle at her 
  • Costantino has shared images of her injuries after the attack knocked her unconscious, as police continue to search for her attacker  
  • She has now blamed the city for the slow police response to the scene, which is dealing with a large homeless problem

A Portland doctor who was knocked out by a ‘homeless‘ attacker has revealed the wounds to her face, and blames the city for the slow police response.

Radiologist Mary Costantino was attacked last Friday night shortly after 10:30 in the Oregon city while walking with a friend.

Shocking surveillance footage of the incident shows a man throw a large silver bottle directly at the 50-year-old, rendering her unconscious.

Speaking to Fox News Digital, Costantino said she woke up on the ground and was sure she was about to be killed and immediately called 911.

Costantino has also now taken a swipe at the city for the poor response time to the situation – and said the deterioration of public safety in Portland has now led her to change her voting habits from Democratic to Republican.

Speaking to Fox, she said: ‘I thought we were still being sort of attacked in some way.

‘I was like, I’m going to just try to verbalize a report of what’s happening, so there’s some record of how I died.’

As she became more coherent, she realized she was not dying and that she had in fact been struck in the face by an aluminum water bottle.

Surveillance footage shows the moment the unprovoked assault happened, with police now seeking help in capturing the suspect.

Costantino can be seen walking with her friend on the far right of the shot, as other people walk down the sidewalk.

Seconds later, a man viciously throws the bottle at Costantino who is immediately knocked out and falls to the ground.

The man then continues towards the pair, with Costantino now on the ground, as her friend manages to keep the man at bay.

Police have described the man as being a white male in his 20s or 30s and was last seen wearing a dark flannel jacket with a dark hood, black pants and carrying a backpack.

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Fox News:        https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-portland-leaders-face-backlash-homeless-man-attack-doctor-slow-response-police




Top Japanese Diplomat Violently Assaulted in Portland in Anti-Asian Attack

The top Japanese diplomat in Oregon was the target of an unprovoked attack last month in downtown Portland, according to court records. Yoshioka Yuzo, the Consul General for Portland’s Consular Office of Japan, was walking when a homeless woman violently pushed him to the ground that caused profuse bleeding to his head. Yuzo’s attacker was identified as Arissa Robinson, a 23-year old woman who has a history of assaulting Asians, according to court documents.

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A top Japanese diplomat was violently assaulted in Portland by a black homeless woman in an anti-Asian attack.

Yoshioka Yuzo, the Consul General for Portland’s Consular Office of Japan, was walking near Southwest Park Avenue and Oak Street when he was violently shoved to the ground by a homeless woman.

The assault, which took place on June 17, was revealed in newly released court documents.

According to KGW, Yoshioka Yuzo was bleeding profusely from his head and was transported to a hospital.

Yuzo’s attacker, identified as Arissa Robinson, has a history of assaulting Asians according to court documents.

In August 2022 Robinson repeatedly punched a 76-year-old Asian man before putting him in a chokehold.

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California Governor Newsom Vowed in 2008 to End Homelessness in 10 Years, But It Has Gotten Worse!

California: Democrat Governor Newsom, who was the Mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011, appeared in a video dating back to 2008 in which he stated that he had a 10-year plan to build more homes to end chronic homelessness in his city. However, homelessness has exploded across the entire state due to government funding of bureaucracies that profit from homelessness and other bad policies.

California has a homelessness problem that is serious enough to make many impoverished Third-World countries blush.

This is far from a new problem, even though the scale of the situation has only increased in recent years.

Gov. Gavin Newsom even appeared in a video touting his plan for solutions to the state’s biggest black eye — 14 years ago.

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The progressive corporatist was the mayor of San Francisco at the time.

In the video, Newsom outlined his solutions to the city’s problem with homelessness, pledging to build more housing. Housing shortages are continually cited as key to the unaffordable state’s homelessness crisis to this day.

In spite of an entire set of ever-growing local, state and federal programs, California’s homeless problem has only gotten discernibly worse, even as Newsom has ascended to higher office and continually been re-elected.

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness has tallied a steadily increasing homeless population in the state since 2010.

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Biden to Provide Free Crack Pipes. Drug Addiction Causes Homelessness and Crime

The Biden regime is planning to spend $30 million to give out free crack pipes to drug addicts in “underserved communities” in the name of “advancing racial equity.” Drugs are destroying Americans’ lives and they are now cheaper and more accessible than ever. According to a homeless man in San Francisco, the “vast majority” of homeless people are homeless because they are drug addicts. He admitted to shoplifting and breaking into cars to pay for his $60 per day habit. He said that 95% of homeless people have switched from heroin to fentanyl, which has come down in price from $200 per day to $60 per day.

Link for video featuring Ben, the homeless man:  https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1490130669875253250.html

People say high rent causes homelessness but Ben, who has been homeless in San Francisco for 7 years, says the “vast majority” are homeless due to addiction. Just 6-7% are from SF. Ben says he “boosts” (shoplifts) and breaks into cars to pay for his $60/day heroin habit.

Ben says 95% of people have switched from heroin to fentanyl, and that some dealers aren’t even selling it any more.
He says the price came down from $200 to $60 a day over the last two years
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“Definitely addiction is the main driving force. After that, you’re stuck. Like you can’t really go back, it’s hard to go, ‘Oh, okay. I’m done being homeless. Now I’m going to just turn my life around.” – Ben
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Ben’s is a common story from honest homeless. Not everybody on the street is as honest. Many naive liberal journalists are hoodwinked by people who tell them what they want to hear, ie, that they’re just down on their luck, can’t afford the rent, that it’s not about the drugs etc
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We should do what they do in Netherlands and Portugal, where homeless are required to stay in shelters and arrested for using drugs publicly

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Information Liberation:   http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62865




Portland Plans to Force New Construction Sites to Include ‘Rest Spaces’ for Homeless People

Portland’s “planning and sustainability commission,” which writes and enforces the city’s building codes, approved a new rule that would require new construction to feature “opportunities to rest and be welcome” for those who do not number among that building’s residents or customers. One member of Portland’s planning and sustainability commission confirmed that the goal is to benefit homeless people. Inviting the homeless to rest is inviting them to squat. Once squatting takes place, claims to ownership will follow, based on long-held norms that property is possession. An estimated 34% of Portlanders want to leave the city due to the homeless problem.

To ensure that homeless “campers” have all the comforts they need, the very woke blue city of Portland is preparing a regulation to require all new homeowners to provide “rest spaces” for the homeless.

According to the Daily Wire:

The city’s “planning and sustainability commission,” which writes and enforces the city’s building codes, approved a change to building guidelines in November that would require new constuction [sic] to feature “opportunities to rest and be welcome” for those who do not number among that building’s residents or customers.

The requirement can be read a number of ways, but at least one member of the Portland planning and sustainability commission was clear to local reporters that the requirement is to the benefit of the city’s “unhoused,” who are often kicked off of private property for loitering, sleeping, or camping — as is (typically) a private property owner’s right.

“Just one of the realities of Portland right now is that we have a lot of folks who are unhoused who benefit from some of these spaces that provide weather protection,” she said when introducing the idea at a recent meeting.

Problem one is that this is an expropriation of private property.  Inviting the homeless in to “rest” is inviting the homeless in to squat.  And once squatting takes place, claims to ownership can follow, based on long held norms that property is possession.  Too bad about the people who actually paid for the property.

Problem two is that it’s pretty insulting to the homeless.  Instead of the city providing them with the housing and drug treatment many require, they get these private “rest spots” instead. 

It’s also supremely ignorant of who the homeless are and what homeless dynamics are.  Some homeless people are temporarily down on their luck.  Some are driven to living in their cars based on NIMBY environmental regulations and high housing costs that don’t jibe with their earnings.  Those are people who can be helped in far more dignified ways than “rest spots” on private property.

There are also “lifestyle” homeless, who have chronic drug, mental health, and drug-linked mental health issues who are very difficult to help because they won’t accept help.  Typically, they gather around a drug dealer and set up camp.  The rest spots can be new camps.  And once in, they can be fiercely territorial.  The new “rest spots” are likely to become battle grounds as these homeless seek to stake out new territory on private property.  Sound like a place to build some new construction in?  Lucky owners.

It almost sounds as if Portland’s insanely blue government is attempting to deputize the private sector to take on some of the city’s abundant homeless population in a bid to reduce stress on public spaces.

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Defends Sending its Homeless People to New Jersey

New York city, under the leadership of Mayor Bill de Blasio, has sent about 5,000 homeless families to Newark, New Jersey, as part of his $89-million Special One-Time Assistance (SOTA) program. In response, Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark is suing New York city to stem the tide of impoverished people streaming into his city. The Department of Investigation found that some SOTA families were living in squalor. [The fruit of welfare always is need for more welfare. Both cities have created this growing need and now are fighting over who is going to pay for it. Neither one can afford it.] -GEG

Mayor Bill de Blasio conceded on Thursday that “there were mistakes” in his initiative to ship about 5,000 homeless families out of town — but he is “deeply surprised” that Newark is suing over it.

“That was really a derogatory lawsuit,” de Blasio said. “It was a statement against working poor people. You read what they’re suggesting. It’s entirely disrespectful to these people who are just trying to make ends meet and lead their lives.”

New Jersey’s largest city filed the federal lawsuit Monday to block New York from dumping more homeless families in their back yard under de Blasio’s $89 million Special One-Time Assistance program.

The lawsuit accuses New York of forcing SOTA families into “uninhabitable conditions” in Newark.

De Blasio said the suit came “with no warning whatsoever,” even though he had spoken to Newark Mayor Ras Baraka “several times over the last year.”

“My point to Mayor Baraka is, there but for the grace of God go you or I,” de Blasio said Thursday. “This is about helping working people, working poor people who ended up homeless.”

“How could any city turn its back on people in need?” he said. “It just doesn’t make sense.”

He also blamed Newark for the substandard housing that SOTA families were placed in.

“If the building is in your jurisdiction, you have a responsibility for the health and safety of the building,” de Blasio said. “Again, ‘Physician, heal thyself.’”

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Veterans Community Project (VCP) Is Building Tiny Home Neighborhoods to Help Homeless Vets Living on the Streets

Veterans Community Project is building tiny homes for homeless veterans, and creating a healing network, with the goal of transitioning the vets into permanent housing. Their first community includes 49 tiny home units built on five acres is in Kansas City, Missouri. A community center with a doctor’s office, dentist office and fellowship hall is planned. The Veterans Community Project is building more neighborhoods in St. Louis, Orlando and Denver.




Denver Business Owner Fined For Not Cleaning Up Feces And Used Drug Needles Left Behind by Homeless Vagrants

The city of Denver fined Jawaid Bayzar, a local internet business owner, after he and his staff refused to continue cleaning up after homeless people behind his building. He said that the homeless people leave trash, drug needles, food, and human waste in the alley where his business is located. He complained that the vagrants engage in drug deals, prostitution and violence. The city of Denver is following liberal policies and refuses to enforce laws against trespassing, camping, and public defecation. Denver contends that if the trash is on Bayzar’s property, it is his responsibility to clean it. The city has threatened to issue additional fines, and Bayzar plans to fight the ticket in court on December 18th.

 

The city of Denver fined a local business owner after he and his staff refused to continue cleaning up after homeless people behind his building, according to CBS Denver.

There’s food, trash, drug deals,” said Jawaid Bayzar, who added “In the alley we get, ya know, the defacation, drug needles, prostitution” behind his internet company, Forethought.net. One night an employee was sitting in his car when someone smashed the window and tried to stab him, according to Bayzar.

And when Bayzar and his crew stopped cleaning up the constant hazardous mess left by the vagrants, telling CBS he’s not equipped to deal with it, Denver fined him.

“If the city’s not going to enforce laws against trespassing, or camping, or public defecation and just make me bare the cost of these problems that’s just not right,” he told CBS4.

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Crime in Los Angeles, Including Violent Attacks By Homeless People, Rose by More than 50% in One Year

Attacks by homeless people are on the rise. There were 6,528 arrests in 2017 in Los Angeles. In 2018, arrests for criminal activity rose to 9,846, an increase of more than 50%. Some of the attackers have been issued tickets for battery instead of being arrested. UCLA’s California Policy Lab reported that 78% of unsheltered people are experiencing mental-health conditions, and 75% are suffering from substance abuse. The two likely are connected. -GEG

Attorney Brandon Coen wasn’t at all surprised when a homeless man walked up on a downtown Los Angeles sidewalk as Coen walked his dog, and punched him in the head.

“What was shocking was that I lived here for four years and it didn’t happen sooner,” Coen said. “I am always on the lookout.”

Security footage shows a homeless man strike a woman in the face with such force that she falls backward onto the ground. The man is then seen punching Coen, who managed to block some of the force with his left arm. 

“It was scary because I didn’t know if he was going to stop or if he was going to continue to hit me or attack other people, possibly my dog,” he said. “I was very happy when LAPD showed up about five minutes later and arrested him because that’s fairly rare here.”

“Downtown is supposed to be the crown jewel of LA,” he said. “Unfortunately that’s not the reality. It’s different if you come and visit and go to dinner or get a drink but when you live here and you’re here 24 hours a day you see a different side of downtown, a scarier side.”

It’s not just Coen.

In one case, a Los Angeles woman was pulled from her car not far from the Hollywood Walk of Fame and doused with feces. She’s had to get tested for infectious diseases every three months since. 

In December of 2018, a man was pushed off the sidewalk, and run over by a truck in downtown Los Angeles.

In August of 2019, a homeless man was caught on camera tossing a large rock at the windshield of a man’s car, and was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. 

According to Los Angeles Police Department records obtained and analyzed by the NBC4 I-Team, 6,528 homeless people were arrested on criminal c

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New York City, Under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Leadership, Is Secretly Sending Its Homeless Population to Other States

New York City is secretly shipping homeless people to other states across the country, with enough taxpayer money to pay rent for a full year. The receiving cities lack funding for the added expense of the new homeless people and spill-over issues. The Special One-Time Assistance program, instituted in 2017 by Mayor Bill de Blasio, has cost taxpayers about $90 million dollars. Some of the homeless people have returned to NY City and are suing the city. More than 5,000 families (12,000 individuals) have been “exported to different locations in the mainland United States, and some have even been sent to Hawaii or Puerto Rico. Dr. Drew Pinsky said that funding for state mental health institutions was eviscerated under President Kennedy in 1963 and mentally ill people wound up on the streets, in prisons and in nursing homes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61JSeSkrlnA

NYC is giving its homeless thousands of dollars to move elsewhere, without informing the cities to which they’re being sent

 
New York City has spent millions of dollars paying for homeless people to move somewhere else, and the city has not been informing receiving municipalities that it is shipping the homeless to them, according to the New York Post.
 
The Special One-Time Assistance program, instituted in 2017 by Mayor Bill de Blasio, has cost taxpayers about $90 million dollars. In the program, homeless people receive a year’s worth of rent money and traveling expenses to go somewhere else. Here are the requirements:
 

Homeless individuals and families are eligible for SOTA if they can prove they have been in a New York City shelter for at least 90 days and that their household income is no more than twice what it owes in rent. DHS would not expand on eligibility rules.

More than 5,000 families (12,000 individuals) have been “exported to different locations in the mainland United States, and some have even been sent to Hawaii or Puerto Rico.
 
So, a homeless family could hypothetically receive $1,500 or so for one-way plane tickets to Hawaii, an average of about $17,000 for a year of rent (which obviously varies based on location) and even $1,000 for furnishing their new home, as one program recipient told the Post they received.
 
The city would argue that as expensive as that sounds, it’s actually cheaper per family than the cost of shelter funding, which they say is about $41,000 per year.
 
However, the city might be paying to send them off, and then later paying for them when they come back.
 

Not only are officials in towns where the city’s homeless land up in arms, but hundreds of the homeless families are returning to the five boroughs — and some are even suing NYC over being abandoned in barely livable conditions. Multiple outside agencies and organizations have opened investigations into SOTA.

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Immigrant from Dominican Republic Confessed to Bludgeoning Four Sleeping Homeless Men to Death


New York: Randy Santos, a 24-year old homeless man, confessed to fatally bludgeoning four sleeping vagrants and critically injuring a fifth with a heavy 3-foot piece of construction metal during a bloody rampage through Chinatown over the weekend. Police said that Santos had a half-dozen prior arrests over the last two years, including a November arrest for an incident in which a man was bitten on the chest. Santos is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic; it is unknown if he is in the US legally. -GEG

A homeless man confessed to fatally bludgeoning four sleeping vagrants and critically injuring a fifth during a bloody rampage through Chinatown, a prosecutor said in court on Sunday.

Randy Santos, 24, came clean when cops confronted him with evidence of the grisly attacks, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Alfred Peterson said.

“While he was in the 5th Precinct, he was shown video of the attacks and he admitted that he was the person in the video,” Peterson said.

Peterson also revealed that the weapon Santos allegedly used – described by law enforcement sources as a 3-foot, 15-pound piece of construction metal – was “covered in blood and hair” when cops caught him carrying it over his shoulder.

Nabbing Santos likely prevented further carnage, because “the way he was walking, it looked like he was looking for more victims,” a source has said.

Peterson didn’t allege a motive for the orgy of violence shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday but noted that “all of the people were sleeping” and Santos’ actions were “unprovoked.”

Santos, whose last known address is a homeless shelter in Brooklyn, is charged with four counts of murder, one court of attempted murder and criminal possession of marijuana in the grisly attacks along East Broadway and the Bowery near Chatham Square.

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Additional sources:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/06/dominican-immigrant-charged-murdering-four-homeless-men-nyc/

https://nypost.com/2019/10/06/chinatown-killer-was-living-in-abandoned-bronx-house-neighbors-say/