Posted on 04/09/2024 2:22:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over the past five years but didn’t consistently track whether the huge outlay of public money actually improved the situation, according to state audit released Tuesday.
With makeshift tents lining the streets and disrupting businesses in cities and towns throughout California, homelessness has become one of the most frustrating and seemingly intractable issues in the country’s most populous state.
An estimated 171,000 people are homeless in California, which amounts to roughly 30% of all of the homeless people in the U.S. Despite the roughly $24 billion spent on homeless and housing programs during the 2018-2023 fiscal years, the problem didn’t improve in many cities, according to state auditor’s report.
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All that money does is pay for a bloated government bureaucracy and leftist political voting bloc
Government only rewards its failure.
If problems get fixed, the money dries up. So they don’t try to fix anything and they don’t track the money. Just keep on truckin’.
It is EXTREMELY effective.
The lavish welfare blue states are sucking up the national homeless like vacuum cleaner.
They’re actually doing all of us a tremendous service.
Of course they haven’t kept track well. Makes it easier to steal.
A bumbling white house democrat administration that has no idea of the
actual amount of ukrainian "aid".
A democrat controlled state for decades that has no clue how much money
spent on the "homeless", likely including illegal aliens.
There seems a direct correlation here.
(scratches head)
California hasn’t properly tracked money since Reagan was Governor.
PERIOD
MATH IS HARD
ACCOUNTABILITY IS EVEN HARDER
Very effective: we have more bums here than ever.
How about we cut the spending to zero and see what happens!
If any business kept track of their books like ANY state or any feral agency, people would go to jail.
Government at every level is a criminal enterprise.
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