Report: California Spent $10 Billion Over
Three Years to Help 571,000 Homeless People
Times of San Diego [CA],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
2/18/2023 11:34:07 PM
In Sacramento, there’s a word that keeps popping up during discussions about the state’s homelessness crisis: “accountability.” Gov. Gavin Newsom has scolded cities and counties for failing to get more people off the street, hundreds of millions in state spending notwithstanding. “Californians demand accountability and results, not settling for the status quo,” the governor said last November. (Snip) The increasingly bipartisan chorus points to two stark, seemingly contradictory trends: The state keeps spending more to address the crisis, and the crisis keeps getting worse. So where, they ask, is all the money going? On Wednesday, California lawmakers got something that
Reply 1 - Posted by:
SALady 2/18/2023 11:42:03 PM (No. 1406527)
It's not Newsom's money. What does he care???
He can just keep on taxing all those "evil rich people" to pay for his follies -- well, at least until all the "evil rich people" leave Cuba-fornia and there aren't any left to keep on taxing. Then he will just call his buddy, Senile Joe bidet, and have him fund all of Newsom's follies with tax dollars from the rest of the country.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/18/2023 11:44:59 PM (No. 1406531)
Sadly he spent way more than that paltry sum on illegal aliens.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/18/2023 11:47:56 PM (No. 1406532)
Folks in California, it's tough. Real tough. To those there who like this, enjoy the suck.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 2/18/2023 11:55:15 PM (No. 1406535)
Pretty Boy will probably be our next president and immediately bankrupt the country.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
XCenturion 2/19/2023 12:15:43 AM (No. 1406545)
Can someone explain to me why the people of California keep electing Democrats like Gavin "Gruesome" Newsom? It's either the voters are stupendously ignorant or there is rampant voter fraud.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 2/19/2023 12:22:34 AM (No. 1406549)
#5 The system is totally rigged in Ca and has been for decades. Real voters dont keep electing democrats.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
texaspast 2/19/2023 12:31:21 AM (No. 1406552)
Nah, #6 - I'll go with option number 1 - the majority of the people in California are stupendously ignorant - or, perhaps more likely, stupendously stupid. I'll go with the latter.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Birddog 2/19/2023 12:38:48 AM (No. 1406554)
California Spent $10 Billion Over
Three Years to ..HOST... 571,000 Homeless People.
While 500,000 taxpayers fled the state for "smarter" locales.
571K is an entire Detroit, Baltimore or Milwaukee.
More people homeless than live in Fresno Ca, or the state Capitol of Sacramento.
Quite a few more than the entire population of Atlanta.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Safari Man 2/19/2023 12:56:07 AM (No. 1406558)
Cronies are $10B richer now. Homeless are exactly the same.
It’s funny how many of us still question how anyone still votes for dimocrats. When will we finally accept that voting is political theater? Dimocrats count the votes. Republicans do little to counter the massive fraud. Dims get “re-elected” no matter what. It’s nothing more mysterious than that.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 2/19/2023 12:59:00 AM (No. 1406559)
Follow the $$$. Where did all the money go? Long time passing. Follow the $$$, audit the $$$. $10 Billion and the results - homeless here, homeless there, homeless everywhere. Something smells, and it's not just the feces and urine from the homeless. Okay, golden boy Newsom, account for all the money spent. Where did it go?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
smokincol 2/19/2023 1:33:51 AM (No. 1406572)
and the result was - 671,000 homeless people??, typical demcommie solution to every problem: 1) spend exorbitant amounts of money on something to convince "the people" that they're taking the right approach and 2) raise taxes to "pay" for that "something", which leads to 3) financial and political enslavement of "the people" who paid for those programs through the increased taxation
it's in the demcommies playbook and everyone who votes for a demcommie is supporting their own enslavement
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
watashiyo 2/19/2023 3:16:16 AM (No. 1406593)
Californians must be the happiest people on earth.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mifla 2/19/2023 5:03:01 AM (No. 1406605)
War on Poverty + Money = More Poverty.
War on illiteracy + Money = More Illiteracy.
War on Homelessness + Money = More Homelessness
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chumley 2/19/2023 5:58:33 AM (No. 1406620)
I used to help the homeless. Their stories were all different but had one thing in common; they were all lies. Almost always they were mentally ill and often alcoholics or drug addicts. They weren't down on their luck, they made poor choices.
One thing is certain, once they see you as a mark you will never be left alone.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 2/19/2023 7:07:17 AM (No. 1406633)
You know where the money didn't go. I bet a lot of "helping agencies" grew exponentially, paid bigger salaries, with execs getting lots of perks.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 2/19/2023 7:07:35 AM (No. 1406634)
You only get more of what you subsidize. Ronaldus Magnus.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
downnout 2/19/2023 8:20:42 AM (No. 1406662)
Money for the homeless is not for the homeless. It is for advocates and NGOs who claim they are helping the homeless. There is a great deal of money at stake and the charities have learned well how to milk the taxpayers cow.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jimincalif 2/19/2023 8:56:50 AM (No. 1406680)
Yeah, what #17 said. Govt agencies, NGOs, universities, consultants and others who are always “studying” and issuing reports, builders who put up the expensive housing, and various self-appointed advocates are all part of what I like to call the Homeless Industrial Complex. They are now a vested special interest group feeding at the public trough, employing their own set of lobbyists and buying votes. Homelessness will never be fixed, too much money in it now. And not only do they hoover up tax dollars, they get to virtue signal and feel good about themselves while doing so.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
joew9 2/19/2023 9:45:39 AM (No. 1406721)
That comes out to less than 6k$ per year for each one. Now we know why they let the mentally ill live on the streets instead of in an institution. It's much cheaper.
It's also highly immoral. Bring back mental institutions and involuntary committal.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/19/2023 10:35:01 AM (No. 1406772)
California used to be a beautiful vacation spot with hundreds of historical places to visit and some of the best scenery in the country. Now it's a living example of the definition of insanity.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
FLCracker 2/19/2023 11:11:17 AM (No. 1406802)
That would be $17,500 and some change per person. Why do I not believe these people did not see this money?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/19/2023 11:20:06 AM (No. 1406812)
And under the story, Each Homeless got 85 cents and the rest was stolen by Leftist Thugs!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 2/19/2023 11:22:40 AM (No. 1406815)
About 30 years ago, I read an article that pointed out what’s going on with all the social welfare programs, including all those for the “homeless”. The author of the article pointed out that if all the money spent by government on all of its programs were simply given to the intended recipients, eliminating all the agencies, NGO’s and their employees, each person in “need” would get about $65,000 a year. The people running all the programs said, in effect, “you can’t do that - they’d just spend all the money on liquor and cigarettes and drugs and lottery tickets!” The author of the article pointed out to them that ALL of us who work for a living have that same choice, but we’d only do it once or twice before we learned that was a bad idea. The welfare “industry” had no answer for that.
There really is an “industry” built up to administer the welfare state. It’s huge, and it’s lucrative, and the people in it don’t want to lose it. The first step in correcting this problem is to get rid of all the agencies administering the money we spend on the so-called “needy” and “homeless”, and start over.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
moebellini3 2/19/2023 12:24:20 PM (No. 1406878)
All bullsh**. 10 billion dollars and this article provides nothing. It's just a convoluted mess, generalities about housing and numbers for the homeless. Some got housing, some stayed, some went to relatives, some new ones came and went. All garbage. This article is so full of holes its a joke. Where's the audit, where did the freakin money go. WHO RECEIVED THE CHECKS AND HOW MUCH DID THEY GET. It's that freakin simple, but then again it's California. Pathetic.
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