Posted on 03/16/2026 10:46:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Yesterday I had some figures from the NYC vs LA deathmatch over who can spend more on the homeless population. Los Angeles was looking pretty good with $650,000 per housing unit for the homeless, but don’t count NYC out yet.
These numbers come from the NY comptroller’s annual report via Mike Bird of the Economist.
New York City’s unsheltered population increased from 3,588 in FY 2019 to 4,504 in FY 2025 — a 26 percent increase from pre-pandemic levels
In that time, spending on services for this population has more than tripled, growing from $102 million in FY 2019 to nearly $368 million in FY 2025 (a 262 percent increase). Its share of spending has also increased, from just under 5 percent to nearly 9 percent of total DHS spending.
This part of the pattern is consistent. Spend more on a problem and you create more of it.
Homeless spending tripled and the homeless population rose 26%.
But let’s break down those numbers. Divide $368 million by 4,504 and you get $81,705 in spending her homeless person.
Obviously that’s not the actual amount being given to the homeless. That’s the money going to various agencies and contractors and the vast majority of it goes to various politically connected folks. If the issue were resources for poor people, you could just give a check to each bum. But the bums are mentally ill drug and alcohol addicts and the welfare state cultivates them to be able to cash in. And are they ever cashing in.
In January 2025, the City announced an additional $106 million in the annual baseline budget to open 900 additional Safe Haven beds, bringing the City’s total low-barrier bed capacity to 4,900 beds
And we’re not even in the full Mamdani.
My best advice is if you’re living in a major homeless city, is to get a second job. You’ll need it to pay for the homeless spending that’s buying mansions for some people in the homeless-industrial complex.
NY City is a welfare city. It produces NOTHING.
Its government income comes from property taxes, Wall Street corporate and individual taxes, State transfers (much of which comes from Fed.gov) and Fed.gov direct transfers.
The US Government gets into wars to protect the US dollar and US treasury as the world’s most popular collateral
FOR WHAT PURPOSE? So we can continue to print money and issue massive debt to fund marxists in places like NY City and Los Angeles?
Should be “Steal’s $81,705” per homeless bums.
Prisons and mental institutions. We need a lot of them. The people you see out and about on the street should all be hard-working, law-abiding, decent Americans with jobs and homes. 100%. Anyone who doesn’t fit that description should be locked up somewhere. It would be money well spent.
The New York Slimes will never do it, but how about the "$$$ per individual" for every member of the Homeless Industrial Complex?
Between the official government employees, the NGO staff, the nonprofit staff, it will be just a tad more than $82,000 per Homeless Industrial Complex staff.
I increased my monthly by $10 and also sent $100 extra.
They may have to go to paid subscriptions to survive.
Thanks! I have often sent in an additional quarterly contribution when fundraising was behind near the end of the quarter. I hope this can stay as a voluntary contribution site.
So, if they stop spending money on the homeless, the problem will go away!
I meant as in Vegas terminology.
They could leave read-only free, with paid subscription to post/comment.
Someone posted above how even the TDS haters might pay for having access to vent at us lol
SKIM:
I am sure there are funds reported as being spent on tents, food, medical care, etc that really went to democRAT operatives.
Lot cheaper to buy them a one-way ticket to Hawaii.
“So, if they stop spending money on the homeless, the problem will go away!
Literally. They’ll wander off.
Excellent point lol
Actually, maybe I have become too jaded but I mostly see all the charities the dogs children homeless trees vets whales CO2 et al as primarily scam operations.
That which you tax you get less of. That which you subsidize you get more of.
That’s prit near what Commiefornica spends “educating” children. And Commiefornica kids are as stupid as homeless people are homeless.
The government doesn’t actually SPEND $87,000 per homeless person. They simply steal $80,000 for themselves and their NGO allies and throw away the rest.
The NGOs thrive off the homelessness “crisis” It is only the lack of imagination as to the number of programs they can come up with and expect us to pay for. It is the Ultimate Trickle Down Finding scheme. (See: Cantillon Effect)
That is the quarterly FR budget! Do ya think we can convince Mandami that we are homeless? That would solve the budget problem.
anything you subsidize, you get more of.
Period.
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