A state audit found that California invested a staggering $24 billion over the past five fiscal years to address homelessness, a figure that underscores the state’s urgent effort to curb this intractable crisis.
Yet, as this spending has increased, so has California’s homeless population.
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, an estimated 181,000 people experienced homelessness in California in 2023 — an increase of 63,000 over the past ten years.
Common sense says: Tossing taxpayer moola at bums is like heaving endless buckets of chum into shark infested waters. The more you feed 'em the more that arrive for the free stuff.
ReplyDeleteAnything you subsidize, you get more of.
ReplyDeleteThat works out at $132,596 per homeless person. Surely they could have just bought each one of them a house. Of course that would result in hoards of parasites descending on the place to claim their free house. The next obvious question to ask is where has all this money actually gone?
ReplyDeleteStonyground.
That was a five-year spending figure. Later on it says they spent $42,000 per homeless person in the 2021-2022 year.
DeleteThat is 24 billion for the govt employees and their developer friends. Homeless do not come into play.
ReplyDeleteThe very reason they are homeless is because they cannot maintain a house, they can't maintain a rental, and they cannot maintain a free section 8 rental. They need caged.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
Do not feed the bears
ReplyDelete$42,000 per homeless person. It would be a lot cheaper buy a one-way air ticket to anywhere in the world, a $10,000 debit card, and a warning never to set foot in the state again.
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