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.
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The government parasites will be drawn to the money flow until no money is left for the homeless.
You can bet there is a ton of Kickbacks going on with the homeless funding or maybe the Scamalis are running it
It’s all a part of the plan. This behavior will continue until there are demands, cries, pleas for the federal government to bail out NY and other Lib run cesspools and YOU will pay for it, the gov will cave and the gov will make you pay...
Homelessness is like an NGO...until you stop the flow of $, it will only continue to increase
Basic economics axiom.
That which the government funds, increases.
That which the government taxes, decreases.
I wonder what the skim is?
Promise to handout free stuff and they will come.
But then don’t keep that promise.
Yeah, but....steak and lobster.
NGO ‘charities’ are about as stingy as HRC.
That can easily send a family with first class tickets th anywhere on the planet.
When you subsedize something, you get more of it.
When you tax something, you get less.
Tax the homeless!
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The skim is the salaries of government workers that administer the program. The government employee unions tell their members not to work efficiently or to streamline the process because that eliminates union jobs. I would estimate that the government administrative overhead cost is 400% to 500% of what goes to the homeless.
Thanks, MC
That is a really expensive tent.
Can I buy them the tent and then pocket the remaining 81k?
The whole leftist push to “help the homeless” is just a disguised jobs program for useless leftist trust fund nepo babies.
“Every little bit helps.”
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I agree! I wouldn’t be talking the talk if I wasn’t already walking the...you know...the thing.
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Homeless spending = Minneapolis Syndrome
Keeping hacks pockets full
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