Posted on 07/29/2025 10:26:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s a “housing crisis.” It’s because Republicans are evil and don’t care about the downtrodden. It’s because capitalism is cruel. It's because we don't throw enough money at the problem.
We’re talking about the homelessness crisis, and the Democrats who are in charge of many of the cities hardest hit by the devastation will blame almost anything other than their own failed policies. But according to a study from researchers at the University of Chicago and Dartmouth College—not exactly institutions known as conservative bastions—there’s another reason behind the startling rise in the homeless population, and it’s not what Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker and the mainstream media are telling you.
The study was released in April, but I can’t remember CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, or any other liberal outlet talking about it. The paper, titled simply, “Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness,” is getting renewed attention, and the abstract pretty much tells you everything you need to know:
Data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) indicate an unprecedented 43 percent increase in the number of people residing in homeless shelters in the United States between 2022 and 2024, reversing the gradual decline over the preceding sixteen years. Three quarters of this rise was concentrated in four localities – New York City, Chicago, Massachusetts, and Denver – where large inflows of new immigrants seeking asylum were housed in emergency shelters. Using direct estimates from local government sources and indirect methods based on demographic changes, we estimate that asylum seekers accounted for about 60 percent of the two year rise in sheltered homelessness during this period, challenging media and policy narratives that primarily attribute this rise to local economic conditions and housing affordability.
Read that twice; it’s pretty stunning. It’s something that critics of Joe Biden’s “let them all in” border policies and progressive mayors’ “sanctuary city” madness have known instinctively for some time now, but to see the numbers is nonetheless bracing.
Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness https://t.co/ipyskiWazl pic.twitter.com/7GVtPy7nzH— Economics Papers (@CapybaraPapers) April 8, 2025
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Note that the numbers the researchers provided above only describe the sheltered homeless. The number of homeless on the streets has also risen precipitously, as anyone who lives in a major city can tell you.
When I was in NYC reporting on this just 3 months ago, the city stated that 65,000 illegals were in NYC.
They’re now saying it’s over 93,000.
Last year Adams stated that NYC was set to spend $1 billion to house migrants, that estimate is now over $4.2bpic.twitter.com/d7sddLRXip— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) August 2, 2023
One of the researchers, the University of Chicago's Bruce Meyer, said, Trump’s border policies should help ease the disaster created by Democrats:
'Substantially more than half of the increase in homelessness comes from migration, rather than new individuals falling into poverty,' the University of Chicago's Bruce Meyer said.
'Federal immigration policy changes under the Trump administration that narrow pathways to asylum are likely to slow the growth of sheltered homelessness in the years ahead.'
Why haven’t you heard more about this study? Meyer thinks he knows:
Meyer said his paper, which partly backs President Donald Trump's border crackdown, was proving 'unpopular' in academic circles - a factor he believes might explain why it has been largely ignored by the mainstream media.
According to a count in 2024, more than 771,800 people are homeless in the U.S. on any given night, with the biggest numbers in New York and California—two sanctuary states with soft-on-crime laws and progressive governors.
🇺🇸10 states with the most homeless people:
California: 181,399
New York: 103,200
Florida: 30,756
Washington: 28,036
Texas: 27,377
Oregon: 20,142
Massachusetts: 19,141
Colorado: 14,439
Arizona: 14,237
Pennsylvania: 12,556
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development— World of Statistics (@stats_feed) May 18, 2024
Now we know why the numbers exploded. Thanks, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, thanks, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, thanks, former President Joe Biden and all your “progressive” brethren. You earned this.
I think a big reason for the increase of homelessness is the legalization of marijuana. It causes psychotic breaks in some people and makes others lazy bums.
Oh, no, you didn’t say it. Marijuana isn’t a drug, it’s a religion. You cannot insult marijuana, may peace be upon him. You just brought a fatwa against yourself
Back in the 90’s, my brother and I were in a large city, and we walked by a panhandler with a sign that said, “Need money for pot.” My brother who was still in high school, said, “Have you ever considered that might be the problem?”
Dump 20 million illegals aliens and give them publicly funded housing and, DUH. And landlords are loving it. Guaranteed tenants. I read some sob story where some dump flea bag hotel was going to close but then the owner got a NGO (government funded) contract to house illegals and now the motel is making bank. And of course we will hear the lamentations of democrats that the same flea bag motel will have to close when mean orangeman kicks out all the illegals.
MaryJane Started That
Aloha Snackbar Shuffle
and Taco Tuesday thing.
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ICE raided Our Park last Week
caught one Coyote and Seven
Undocumented Chihuahuas’
It’s closing mental institutions and enabling addicts by handing out free drugs and refusing to make the lives of the homeless less comfortable.
And stop with all the government freebies of free everything the rest of us pay for both for ourselves when we need it, and for them through taxes.
Dunno about loving it. They trash rental places and break things that the landlord has to pay to fix. They also bring little bug friends in with them and infest places.
> They [illegals] trash rental places and break things … <
I’ve seen pictures of that. Unbelievable trash and garbage lying around in each room.
But I’m guessing a smart landlord will have that covered in his contract with the government. Property must be returned in “broom swept” condition. If not, the renter (the government) must pay for all cleaning, etc.
BTTT
I don’t think you need to insult them. Because at the end of the day who is responsible for this? Our government incentivizes people coming here illegally. It’s basic conservative economics, if you incentivize something you’ll get more of it. And it doesn’t matter how many walls you build. People will find a way. If you want to stop the illegal problem, you have to change the laws and practices so it’s no longer incentivized. That’s it end of story.
Many individual reasons for being homeless, in addition to not being homeless but similarly depressed. Hope is difficult to hang on to, when there is no side of that “swimming pool” within reach, and any coach’s words have become “just more noise.”
A friend who suffers from Schizophrenia, is aware when things are going wrong - when medication events do not mesh with what is happening events. She has some discipline to a point, when she knows that somebody listening is actually interested and cares.
And, she has a home.
Another friend who suffers from something very similar to Epilepsy, suddenly forgets what he was doing, and comes to, laying on the ground. He has good discipline and a steady job - where importantly, the boss understands, and fellow workers are kind re his difficulties.
Routine in these two friend’s lives, is very important - and having a doctor who is smart, and not experimenting on you, helps.
Law enforcement, encountering either friend’s problems, sometimes knows how to help, but other times “thinks” incorrectly and makes matters MUCH WORSE.
Truely ignorant .
“People will find a way.”
They haven’t yet with Trump in office.
They needed a study to find it’s because of illegals?
Most of the contracts Include money for renovation and repairs.
I’m going with “laziness” for a great deal of them.
In Ohio it’s drugs. Many choose the street over a shelter because shelters have rules.
” a smart landlord will have that covered in his contract with the government.”
We know we can trust the government to act in our best interest in all situations. If a place is trashed, the Mayor and his minions will be right over to clean things up.
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