Study: Tax Dollars Earmarked for Solving Homeless Crisis Used to Bankroll Far Left Agenda
“coalitions like Funders Together to End Homelessness funneled vast sums toward upstream political causes – including the promotion of reparations and anti-policing movements”
A new study from a pair of think tanks has found that massive amounts of money, taxpayer dollars that are meant to combat the ongoing homelessness crisis, are in fact being used to further the left’s political goals.
This might explain why the homeless problem seems to get worse each year despite the fact that we throw billions of dollars at efforts to solve it.
FOX News reports:
A new study just exposed the corruption behind America’s homelessness crisis
For years, Americans have been told that “compassion” for the homeless meant writing ever-larger checks – more money, more programs and far less accountability.
Now, at last, we have some answers for why homelessness has exploded even amid a tripling of public spending.
A groundbreaking investigation, “Infiltrated” – backed by more than 50 pages of documentation from the Capital Research Center in cooperation with Discovery Institute – pulls back the curtain on a vast system of corruption. It reveals how billions in taxpayer funds intended to lift people out of homelessness have instead bankrolled radical activism and anti-American political agendas, betraying both the taxpayers who fund it and the homeless they were meant to help.
Despite unprecedented resources, homelessness in the United States now stands at its highest level in U.S. history. “Infiltrated” details how the nation’s most prominent “homeless advocacy” organizations have been weaponized against the very people they claim to serve – redirecting compassion into ideology and dependency into power.
The report offers some very specific examples:
Major philanthropic giants – Ford, Robert Wood Johnson and Gates Foundations – poured billions into Housing First and “equity” initiatives to promote ideology under the guise of helping the homeless.
Meanwhile, coalitions like Funders Together to End Homelessness funneled vast sums toward upstream political causes – including the promotion of reparations and anti-policing movements… all under the moral camouflage of addressing homelessness.
One of the obvious problems we have here is that there are a lot of people who make a very comfortable living ‘solving’ the homeless problem. What interest do these people have in eradicating the problem? That would end the gravy train.
John Nolte of Breitbart News commented on this:
Sadly, too many homeless advocates only take pride in ensuring people remain homeless. Why? Well, who wants to work themselves out of a job, especially a sweet-ass government or NGO job? Those aren’t real jobs. Real jobs require results.
But it’s not only that…
To these left-wing activists, the homeless are pawns in their political advocacy and activism. Keep them on the street; keep the money flowing, direct that money into electing Democrats.
It’s the same with the failed urban public schools and all this green energy nonsense.
Ending homelessness is going to require more common sense and tough love. The left’s supposedly compassionate approach will only encourage more of it. We need treatment centers for addicts and the mentally ill. The few who are truly just down on their luck should be given opportunities for work and housing.
Above all, public camping, such as on sidewalks, must be outlawed and the laws must be enforced. There is no other way to end this.
Finally, we need a national audit of all funds being spent on ending this problem. The left should not be allowed to use these funds to benefit politically.
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The homeless problem gets worse because of CATO
40% Crazy
30% Addicts
20% Tramps (like the lifestyle)
10% Out of luck
You can help the 10%, the 90% are out of reach.
The left can stop actively encouraging mental illness and drug use.
LOL. That of course won’t happen.
You are absolutely right.
Decades ago I met a man who was “homeless” who said he quit getting a disability payment because they had too many rules. He wouldn’t stay at a homeless shelter because of the rules.
His disability was more that I was making from my full time job.
I decided he didn’t need my help.
The 90% you refer to as out of reach do not need or deserve our compassion. They should be forced out of cities and towns or locked up.
The study shows an absolutely astounding grasp of the incredibly obvious.
This has been known for years in California. Despite billions poured into it, homelessness gets worse because it’s a big time money making industry. The people in charge of stopping it don’t want it to stop because they will be out of a job and their money laundering will dry up
Most anti poverty programs spend very little on actual program services. Quite a bit of money is skimmed off the top for consulting and supervision for funding the promotion of leftist policies. Best exposure was the USAID
So it’s being used to create more homeless people.
Didn’t know the Waling Dead was meant to be a reality show
If you watch closely, blue hell holes are figuring out how to do the same with prison populations. They’ve been starting with serious sex offenders.
Inslee had a number of schemes including attempting to sell McNeil island and also having his donors house the sex offenders in rental homes they picked in rural/suburban neighborhoods. In one case right next to a children’s playground.
I wish LI would pick up the Green Hill scandal that’s blowing up in Washington state. It keeps getting worse. In fact the only way it could get worse at this point is if they were selling kidneys of the inmates.
These people are the walking definition of evil.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/investigators/employees-recorded-sex-tapes-inside-washington-juvenile-facility-green-hill-school/281-eb3e260f-f260-4fb9-ae7d-3b42188820ca
if you can stomach this..watch it
and of course it wont be addressed that mixing women and men in tight quarters is not a good idea
OR THE FACT THAT 25 year old is considered juveniles
excellent article
ADD TO IT:
the much vaunted new mexico “providing” *free* child care for all
“covid funds” >>>more shifting middle class wealth to the blmplo brigade…..and of course the “evil” oil and gas taxes to fund these lefty wing rino approved schemes
The “free child care for all” is showing cracks. It seems the providers of that “free” child care can’t afford to operate on the state-established rates.
I suspect, if you looked, you’d find tax dollars earmarked for most everything are used to bankroll the far left agenda.
One simple fix is to reform the operating rules for NGO/Charity. First require they spend out on their purported purpose so if it raises funds claiming to be used for Childhood Leukemia then that’s what the can use for the funds for, nothing else. Second limit ‘administrative costs’ to no greater than 20% of budget requiring the other 80% to be spent on the purpose of the org. Third eliminate transfers among NGO/Charities ‘non profits’ and any campaign org/PAC not even for contracted ‘services’ much less a transfer/grant.
Class action lawsuits against charities that took money on a pretense, to spend it on something (anything) else? This type of activity is certainly fraud, yes?
The “fix the problem” process is purposely designed to not solve the problem.
A detailed description of the how is clearly presented in a Jimmy Dore interview with Keith Henry.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFkKxzhil5I
Start at 3:40 and watch/listen through 8:03. The why is that so many make money in reality do very little to truly solve the problem. They support the system that delivers to them.
Indeed not, they’d derail their own gravy train if they fixed or ven reduced the scope of the problem.
One additional point for consideration is applying a basic common sense rule; stop throwing good $ after bad $…at least when it comes to taxpayer funds or heck just Federal taxpayer funds. If your public school system is failing then you shouldn’t be getting increased Federal taxpayer $ or really even any more Federal taxpayer $ at current levels. Stop throwing good $ after bad, instead demand firing the incompetents, the.grifters and/or both and cutting off the flow of Federal taxpayer funds until real, measurable progress gets made.
And require an independent audit of their finances and spending every year.
The Founders had it right. Welfare (in the colonies and, later, the states) was run exclusively at the local level, based on the belief that locals were best suited to identify the truly needy (deserving poor) from slackers. The federal government had no role in such programs. In fact, is no delegated power in the constitution for this, or many of the other things regulatory bureaucracies do. Beside lack of delegated power, the bureaucracies represent a delegation of Congress’ lawmaking power, and are themselves unconstitutional.
In short, where there’s money, there’s corruption.
In other news, water is wet.
oh and one more thing since we are on the subject of taxes
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
to potus DJT and this sovereign wealth fund
holy fff that is sooo wrong he is wrong it is wrong
In San Francisco my understanding is the homeless industrial complex has amassed a huge amount of political power, which assures more funding.
In La county part of the grift was buying hotels at 2x or more valuations to house homeless. This started during Covid. Torrance fought a purchase and a lot of dirt came out. What’s not mentioned is regulations or laws, require homeless housing meet. Certain requirements, a hotel room does not. And have space for a supervisor per so many units, I think a 2 br. Which means the hotel bought for homeless needs a significant remodel, my guess basically gutted.
What a vast source of labor being wasted. No money for vagrancy until our streets are cleared of litter.
The homeless industrial complex has been recognized for at least a couple decades. Where has FOX been?
You’re wrong.
It wasn’t earmarked for ‘solving the homeless crisis’.
It was earmarked for FIGHTING the ‘homeless crisis’.
There’s too much money, graft and general corruption in ‘fighting’ the crisis to ever allow it to be solved.
Michael Shellenberger is author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities. He wrote all about the homeless industry in California several years ago. It’s not solved because the people in charge don’t want it to be, there is too much money in it.
Homelessness has a large mental health component. Progressive shuttering of mental facilities and halting judicial mental health commitments threw huge numbers of people on the streets. These people can’t take care of themselves in society; they need institutional care.
That’s been the modus operandi for the majority of leftist causes for the last half-century. All of this government intervention is largely in aid of the intervenors, not the alleged victims.
Why Chicago, LA, San Francisco and other historically leftist cities continue to decline. It’s a cycle perpetuated and depended upon by the Democrat robber barons of today.
Homeless has always been part of the country. It has gained more people over time. I saw a video of a homeless person in SF telling he came from Louisiana to SF because they give $620 per month plus other things to live on the street so he was happy to be there.
There was not government or organizations trying to end homeless people, but doing things to add the numbers. This is common in Left run areas and governments.
First there is no such thing as earmarks. The political class will use any money they get for any cause they want. The term earmark is used to sway the gullible into either higher taxes or greater charitable giving.
Next. Activist is synonymous with grifter. Most if not all activists derive their livelihood from what they are advocating for. Civil rights, gay rights,
homelessness, poverty, abortion, women’s rights, immigration, you name it
and I guarantee some if not most activists are making a living off of it and a comfortable living at that. Same goes for many charities who skim dollars off the top of contributions to pay what are often lavish salaries and benefits. It’s all a legal scam and one that exists with a wink and a nod to celebrate you from your money through guilt. There are no incentives to solving any problem because then the gravy train ends.
Cynical ain’t I.
“ Activist is synonymous with grifter.” Politician is synonymous with grifter as well.
To paraphrase Douglas Adams:
“There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to running a leftist political party successfully. The knack lies in learning how to throw money at a problem and miss.”
Leftist “helping” programs run very similarly to organized crime. Very little money goes to the purported clients, with most raked off in the form of payroll and benefits for the program leaders plus various “experts” and attorneys that specialize in keeping the money flowing and growing. Just look at the Clintons running of aid to Haiti as an example of maximum grift. Finally, in exchange politicians then get a “taste” for arranging the tidal waves of money showering down on their cronies.