Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
The housing crisis has become a massive issue in America. People with decent jobs are unable to afford housing, and those who were already down and out have little chance of survival. Then we poured the migrant crisis on top of the fire and have created a situation that is turning America into a second-world nation. Not so coincidentally, most of the homeless population lives in blue cities. The US spent over $51 billion on the homeless crisis last year, but where has the money gone?
Homelessness in the US has spiked by 65% since 2016! The Annual Homelessness Assessment Report said it is common for half a million people to be experiencing homelessness on any given night. The data is not in for 2023 when the migrant crisis really took hold after title 42 came to an end, so these figures I will present are nothing compared to our current reality in 2023. For every 10,000 Americans, 18 do not have a home. Around 72% are single adults, but an alarming 28% are families living with children. Five percent of the homeless population are unaccompanied youth under 25. Our veterans compose 6% of the homeless population as well.
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders have the highest rate of homelessness with 121 out of every 10,000 people living in crisis. The Black community has a disproportionate amount of homeless too with 48.2 of every 10,000 experiencing homelessness. Native Americans come in at a close third with 44.9 out of every 10,000 having no place to call home. Sixty-eight percent of all homeless individuals are male.
The US Federal government spent over $51 billion to combat the homeless crisis in 2022, but then our government took measures to worsen the matter, and economic conditions have made it nearly impossible for those with nothing to find shelter. The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates that a chronically homeless person will cost the taxpayers an average of $35,578 per year. Yet, where is this money going? When the migrants came through, we managed to find housing and convert buildings into temporary shelters until cities became overrun and it was impossible to manage — the federal bill for homelessness in FY22-23 will be astonishing.
As of March 2022, these cities saw the largest populations of unhoused individuals:
- Los Angeles City & County 65,111
- New York City 61,840
- Seattle/King County 13,368
- San Jose/Santa Clara City & County 10,028
- Oakland, Berkeley/Alameda County 9,747
- Sacramento City & County 9,278
- Phoenix, Mesa/Maricopa County 9,026
- San Diego City and County 8,427
- San Francisco 7,754
- Metropolitan Denver 6,884
We can see a pattern here, given that these are blue cities. Politicians touted many of these areas as “sanctuary cities” and encouraged tens of thousands of people to use the last of their resources to relocate there. And now, these people have nowhere to stay and no resources to leave. Promising sanctuary should have been a crime in itself. Criminalizing homelessness will not solve the solution and will only further burden the taxpayers. Anyone living in a major American city will tell you first-hand that the number of unhoused people has exploded in the past year. This is a SERIOUS and growing problem that is not being addressed. The government is continually throwing more money at the problem, but it is only worsening.
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Fentanyl + Meth = homeless. About 90% of the homeless are so addicted they can’t do anything but consume drugs 24-7. Giving them housing solves the wrong problem –
Winning?
just because the trailer park you live in has a meth issue this does not mean the entire population has one, your projecting your short comings on others. now image where you spend so much of your income on shelter that a loss if income means a loss of shelter in short order.. how many millions set up for evictions and bankruptcy over the rent freeze and costs so large few have to means to retain their places of residence. think before posting ignorant remarks but for the grace of god go thee…
This video is 4 years old … but it still holds true … except that it’s gotten much worse …
That is good. Nothing is going to change until society hits bottom.
Smash the accelerator and let’s get to the other side.
AMEN! Tired of fucking half steppin’ it to Armageddon. Let’s get this party started already, while I’m still young enough to participate.
Be careful about what you wish for.
What is coming will be unspeakable.
Stalingrad x 1000 as we turn on each other
for mere survival. Armageddon indeed.
When a society fails, wolves rule.
Best be a wolf or at a bare minimum be in it’s pack.
Let human history be your guide.
What is coming isn’t new.
Become Buffalo Hump….
I saw this video several days ago and thought it was current. Then I looked up when it was made and said OMFG.
Someone I know had a discussion the other day with the sales agent for a typical large new housing development in the LA basin. When the sales agent was asked how sales were going, the answer was it was already almost completely sold out. The typical buyers? Chinese investors.
Excellent anecdote!
Soapless, toothless and shiftless bums are at an all time high.
FIFY.
At the height of the depression there weren’t bums.
There were people desperately searching for work.
BIG difference. My grandmother in Salina KS had them show up
at the BACK door asking for any kind of work for some food.
She and my grandfather were about broke too but always had them fix something that didn’t need fixing as she made them a sandwich so they kept their dignity. See any dignity evinced by the bums today
with their drugs, stolen bikes, and Obama sail foams today?
Fuck ’em all.
Not to mention their $900/month in crazy pay and another $200-$250 in EBT. If I got that I’d be RICH.
“Chinese investors” have been living in and raising families in Arcadia CA for well over two generations by now. So cut the racism.
Hey a-hole, Martin is correct. Many people may become homeless, or should I say “home challenged” due to the factors you cite. However, once on the street, drugs (meth and fentanyl) are so plentiful that most who become homeless get addicted. Once addicted, they are fucked. They can no longer think straight because the new industrial meth screws up their minds. Then they move up to fentanyl for a stronger high and then they are really fucked and on the way to exiting life altogether.
Don’t believe me, come visit my fine city and take a walk thru downtown where the homeless and tents are everywhere. Open drug use is the norm and tinfoil and needles litter the ground. In our legal drug-land called Oregon, cops spend all their time administering Narcan to those who OD at $100 of taxpayer money per dose.
So a-hole, maybe you should get out of your YUPPIE high rise apartment more often to see reality.
democrat-run cities
“….but for the grace of (G)od go thee…”
(You’re lack of capitalization of His name tells your story)
Utter reeking horseshit.
No one forced these people into their place.
You cannot save people from their CHOICES.
Fentanyl + meth = homelessness. Period. Get it into your fool head.
I’ll go further, down-voters be damned .. Fentanyl + Meth = chemical warfare by China.
The Army is probably the right tool to use in a war. The Army probably has enough tents for housing and sufficient manpower to roundup half a million addicts and make them sober up for a few weeks. After a few weeks it is possible some of the addicts would have something like free will about using. Think of these addicts as victims of a war with China that DC does not care about.
People with a brain can make choices, get another job, trucking: my nephew lost a job then started trucking, most companies pay to learn ( gear shifting, maintenence on the road, etc ) decent pay, there is no excuse unless a person has a bad driving record. Trades in demand (boomers retiring) Electricial, welders, plumbers HVAC, aircraft mech, auto techs: some employers will train.https://gvwire.com/2023/05/02/on-national-skilled-trades-day-americas-labor-shortage-looms/
My cousin just LOST his truckin’ job of many years (Mercedes, not Yellow.). Apparently we need to rethink ALL this shit!
Do you have a job?
Both of us retired, 401k, etc.
However they still require you be fully ( fooly ) vaxxed, or pcr negative test. Or no insurance will cover the business.
Oh, shit! An inconvenient Truth! Someone call AlGore!
Electricians in my area make about $52K per year; welders, about $40K. I did electrical work for a while and left for something more profitable that would actually allow me to keep a roof over my head. Unless you are scaled Union with many years of experience, the skilled trades do not pay nearly as much as you think.
My clients are exclusively small business trades people like plumbers, electricians, and HVAC. 100K plus is the norm. I know a union electrician making $75hour.
Ben Lurken
If that were true, the answer to suppress the drug problem would be to NOT bite the apple. I don’t see anyone holding a gun to drug users heads. They are consuming them of their own volition. My grocer promotes a HUGE inventory of alcohol and offers substantial promotional deals for volume purchases. I never buy it because I choose not to pollute my body but many others do. You can’t blame anyone else except the person who says yes to it. If you’re weak, you will fall prey to sin. Where there is no market for sin, the tempter will go elsewhere. Americans are weak and destroyable.
Humans are weak and destroyable.
You can’t blame anyone but the inexperienced person who unwittingly became drug/alcohol dependant.
Certainly each one of these “losers” was fully apprised of the long term affects of drugs and alcohol.
Or were they tricked by the system?
Surely the system never glorifies drugs and alcohol in their media products.
Never blame the people, making, shipping and selling the toxic drugs/alcohol.
I do not know of any drunks who produce alcohol on any serious level.
I also do not know any drug addicts who produce their own heroin, meth, fentanyl etc
Nope.
Be like every other ignorant fucknut douche and blame the victims of the drug and alcohol industry for their problems, while you give those who continue to manufacture and profit off this shit, a free pass.
How long until they blame the people duped into sex changes?
“It was their own fault, they should have known better”
You can’t save people from themselves.
They need to be in jail charged w/ felony, then sentenced working /learning a trade so when they get out they can work, most of these bums never had parenting or decent home life it seems as they are unproductive.
When it all goes to Hell? I’m coming for sanctimonious motherfuckers just like YOU…FIRST. And I’ll be bringing an ARMY of homeless veterans with me.
It’s good to have a plan!
Here comes the army of toothless zombies doing the St. Vitus shake, watch out they might pee on themselves.
“Thank you for your service, now go take a bath.”
…it said right before the first muzzle flash. Being able to smell me coming will NOT save you.
If hygiene is your first concern, you’re already dead.
Change your socks “soldier”
LOLOLLL!
I smell a stolen valor liar.
chinese chemical warfare against US poor
Veterans I know got training (G.I. bill) and worked for a living x military if disabled can get monthly checks. No excuse to be a freakin bum!
And that^right there^ is WHY you’ll be targeted!
fund the jails=problem solved.
They need to be in jail charged w/ felony, then sentenced working /learning a trade so when they get out they can work
Great idea!
Re-educarion detox camps where work is considered therapeutic.
I have a slogan suggestion for the drug detox camps:
“Arbeit macht frei von Drogen”
I’d send them all out into nature to plant trees and give them all the weed they can smoke. No drugs or booze though.
My friend’s son was given a huge trade program at the prison system’s halfway house and was making really good money–more than I ever made with my degrees–working for a painting company when he got out. He also found a nice gf who had money and property. But oop – two years later, he’s back in prison.
Have you met and interviewed all the homeless? Pretty cocky statement for someone who is very likely to experience the same thing very, very soon. Along with ALL the rest of western civilization, which is earmarked for extermination regardless of race or social strata.
I love the cut of your jib!
Martin,
you said, 90% of homeless are meth and fentanyl addicts? Where are you getting your stats from? If they’re taking fentanyl, they’re dead. FYI, I work with the homeless. I’d say most I work with are homeless for the first time do to loss of their job, because they were wise to refuse the GM injections. This unconstitutional mandate, led many homeless because without gainful employment, they couldn’t pay their mortgage, bills, insurance, ect. Please post a link to your stats. Martin, thank you.
And look into statistics for how many people who live in houses that have drug, alcohol, gambling, and other addictions. And mental illness.
You know the old saying, People who live in glass houses… shouldn’t throw stones at the homeless.
I agree with most on this story. However you forgot to mention the early release of criminals that adds to the mix. and your also forgot to mention the families that lost their home due to fires, flooding, and loss of income.
I believe the reason the so called red states have less homeless, is because they are shurking their responsibility to help their own homeless population. Instead they run them out, persecute them from city to city, until they cross into the next state. And these are the so called Christians who do this, forgetting Christ Je’sus, and the Disciples were also homeless. Matthew 8:20 kjv and Matthew 4:18-20 kjv
Where does all the money allocated to the homeless go to? there’s no accountability for what the agencies do with the money that’s suppost to be to help the homeless. like Hopesource in Ellensburg, that bought with the money designated for homeless families two Mercedes Bens Sprinter vans for their “homeless outreach”.
And Hopesource could have bought the old motel 6 (currently closed), to refurbish into low income housing. But instead bought a train station to move themselves into (The office they had before was sufficient, again, prodigious use of tax payer money). New phones, new systems, new vans, but still a lot of homeless still without help. For some reason a 32ft projector screen was put into the train station as well.
I’ll give Hopesource credit for building low income apartments, but the buildings lack heating and air conditioning, and have mold. And if something in the unit breaks, managment is no where to be found. Otherwise, It’s unlivable.
I Could name other agencies, but this would take all day.
Brought to you by democrats and rinos since 1965.
That neighbor who had the Biden/Harris sign in the front yard in 2020?
Yeah, them too.
Clown World could not exist without the support of a third of Americans.
You are being too kind. IMHO much more than a third!
It’s a tiny fraction of 1/3rd who are doing this.
A few dozen people stole our last two elections.
A few key counting centers and who is in charge is all it takes.
And then a few hundred more in government who enforce
The Steal.
Amen.
His sign should read will work for cash!
Or food. But donations of food won’t buy his drugs.
I tried to hire one of those guys to clean up some brush, but he was a no show. All he had to od was walk 2 blocks, do some work and I would have given him cash. Probably more lucrative to stand on the corner begging.
Back in college I knew a girl from a good family, with money, who would panhandle on weekends with her friend, for fun.
And profit. She made $100-200 a day sitting with a cup, reading a book, at the metro station.
I thought it wrong, but if people want to give their money away blindly, so be it.
Some folks in the local news media did a quick study of the panhandlers in Vancouver, WA — especially around Mill Plain and I-5 … found that they work in shifts … drive to work … and typically net about $250-300 per day … upon which there are no taxes paid …
Yeah. I saw one report where they covertly followed a panhandler, back to her late model MERCEDES.
They confronted her and she was shameless.
I kind of side with her as I did above. If people want to blindly throw their money away, so be it.
They are so bold in GA that they just park their SUV’s in plain sight with a fucking lawn chair, a sign and a bucket. WHITE people! WTFF?!?
That’s how it goes in Appalachia.
Most of the churches he visits fail and fail miserably at his spreading the message.
In the 1990s
I visited Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, CA.
The Pastor, Greg Laurie, a polished public speaker.
Wanting to meet others, I would arrive early, and then loiter a bit after in the big church lobby.
I went about 5 or so times
Not once, did anyone greet me.
Or even make eye contact so I could greet them.
The hundreds [thousands?] of people who attended these public talks, would rush right past me on the way in, and rush right past me on the way out.
Very….um cold.
In retrospect, what happened there, helped me ultimately, to find truth.
Satan is, among other things, an excellent teacher. He’s the ultimate bad example and therefore serves a purpose. Learning is both hard and painful…which explains this world full of idiots, does it not?
Well said. He is also the administrator of Karma through the Lords of Karma.
I find the science physic vedas fascinating.
Long long ago I went to some youth Christian groups affiliated with Athletes In Action in the Seal Beach area for about two years. Some of them had been top collegiate wrestlers from OK. They did nothing but condescend, and I made no friends whatsoever there. One of them went on to become the U of Wyoming wrestling coach. He’s dead now. Meantime I’m still smoking and drinking up a storm. God does know who is who.
Needless to say, they were exceedingly sanctimonious.
The estimated homeless population is much more than officially reported. It is not only an embarrassment but a scathing indictment of a failed society; 100 billion for the Yew-crane and lavish funding for failed banks but American citizens living in the gutter? Fuck ’em is the public policy and governmental message while the Chou Bai Din administration wants to bring them, illegal aliens and stealth enemy combattants, ALL in. Bastards.
It’s almost like they have a plan, Auntie, as it is happening in most of the western world.
It is global self genocide that the ZOG governments aid and abet; the Path of Sin once trodden remains frequented; once the “victim” uses the hard drugs, they have pushed the spiritual elevator button to Hell. Where are the efforts to build more modern like rural communities something like technology using “Amish”?
I look forward to one day joining their ranks. Infiltrate, unify and rally.
Rise up my brother, get off your knees humanity.
BL, me thinks few are on their knees and many are sitting on their lazy Free Shit Army asses.
Recently was in OKC and was amazed at the homelessness that was pervasive in areas that were quite successful. This dovetails neatly into the legalization of marijuana by the state. All of the ones I saw looked like zombies and probably spend every last dime they can get on drugs.
Been watching Reefer Madness?
Are you saying weed is the cause of increased homelesness?
Sorry, but you seem a little out of touch about current events regarding drugs (type) and homelessness if so.
You do realize that pot is a bit different than the BigPharma pills, opiates and synthetics, right?
Apparently not.
Apparently so: I’ve been smoking weed daily for about 43 years. My home is paid for, have a MS degree in engineering, successful business for over 35 years. Etc. BUT: no meth, no opioids, no fentanyl, etc etc.
The Devil is proud of your ignorant dope loving & promoting stumbling block ass.
So smokin’ weed is unholy, while drinkin’ muh TN whiskey is A OK?
Sorry, pal. That’s just fucking Government grade bullshit. It always was.
I have NO respect for a hypocrite…even the ones in my own family.
Your mother never told you that two stupid wrongs don’t make a right?
For every homeless person on the street there are probably 50 living in some type of vehicle/RV.
I see WAY more of this all the time than people on foot. Cars just crammed full of shit to the point you would barely see well enough to drive.
And dogs … so many of them have dogs.
Excellent observations, especially the dogs, Formi.
People love their dogs and dogs love their people. Were I ever rendered homeless, I’d have my dogs with me. The emotional comfort and warmth they offer (my opinion) is somehow God breathed.
Thank you Father for loving dogs.
Pets, especially dogs, are the only true source of unconditional love.
However, I think it’s more of a sympathy play, which sucks for the dogs.
On several occasions I have given homeless dry food for the dogs.
thank you!
I wouldn’t put a dog through what I anticipate for myself. I’ll live or die without requiring my friends to do the same. I love dogs. That’s why I’m done with them. If GOD won’t be my friend, what right do I have to take it from a dog?
You be careful out there anonymous.
always, friend. We’re small creatures in a vast world. No man is promised tomorrow.
I have never seen a righteous man begging. So many farmers need help but there are so few workers.
All dogs go to heaven.
Amen to that.
If judged on Character, more would pass than humans.
Dogs are burglar alarms for the homeless.
Land mines too, if you train them right!
I spent 1998 living in a van in San Diego County. I estimate there were over 10,000 homeless people living in vehicles in San Diego then.
I think most homeless and hungry people should be asked what choices they made that resulted in them being homeless and hungry. Darwin is solving the problem.
For many of them, the choice was made by the State. They closed the mental hospitals and dumped the mentally unhinged on the street. Obviously they were not taking any new crazies off the street either.
I am sure many are people fucked over by Covidiocy taking their jobs too.
There are going to be many stories of downfall, some self inflicted, some not.
Indeed. Hard times are here now. Harder times are coming…and that right soon.
Shall we sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings? Sounds like a very homeless type of activity, doesn’t it?
That’s dick head thinking. I usually expect more from you than that. And, no, I’m not your down voter. I simply disagree. I realize you’re not alone in your thinking. Being among the majority does not make one right.
Especially when they’ve all been brainwashed by their own government.
For most homeless, it is a lifestyle choice. They are free to make that choice, but I will be damned if I am going to subsidize it. Funny how you never had these problems back when there were vagrancy laws.
Imagine if the United States didn’t have more than 60,000,000 illegal aliens living here — often off the backs of US Citizens and Taxpayers … living in our houses … overflowing our hospitals … destroying everything they touch with crime … encroaching on our Freedoms and Liberties … destroying our National Sovereignty by their very presence …
Aided and abetted by 81 million democrats and liberals.
We coulda been HUGE!
All of this makes sense if you consider that not only don’t they give a rats ass about Americans, they want you dead, particularly if you’re a WHITE American.
Mike Pence “That’s Not My Concern”
Apparently it never was. I’m fortunate to be among the very first to recognize that about him.
What difference does it make?
Lower the minimum wage
Eliminate it.
Now you’re talkin’!
I watched a youtube the other day of the ever increasing homeless Chinese sleeping rough on the streets. The Chinese turn fire hoses on them or blast them with fire extinguisher foam. They also arrest them for living on the streets and or disappear them.
Too bad they were denied the right to bear arms. Funny how shit plays out, ain’t it?
Honestly, it is sad and gut wrenching that the young Chinese sleeping rough are not drug addicts,drunks or mentally ill as the US version. They are generally college educated, many hide the fact that they are homeless because of the dishonor their family would suffer.
The single men need to get employment, learn a trade no excuse to be a bum. Vets can get paid for tuition @ trade schools (incl living expenses) like my husband and other vets we know, earning a decent income and now retired. Those w/ children living on the streets need to turn their kids over to willing relatives, or group homes and cps for adoption, as they are unfit to breed then refusing to take care of their kids.
Fuck you, you freeloading whore! Get your OWN God damned life and stop being a fucking succubus! You give women all over the world a bad fucking rap.
Sorry but she is right.
Turn them over to CPS.
Yeah, we had a neighbor druggy whose toddler son was placed in cps.
Soon the little guy had both his arms and legs broken by his “government approved safe foster family”.
Yeah, no.
CPS seems to operate as a child trafficking ring.
They hire a lot of AA Diversity Morons.
I knew a guy who had had a foster father spray him with a chemical aerosol and then set him on fire. He showed me the scar.
1 trillion spent on bombing people who don’t agree with the rotchilds could help
we need fewer statsticians, and more doers, to build america’s dignity campgrounds so everyone who needs can have a place to sleep and SSS and talk to employment offices and social help if needed. poverty sucks no matter who or where you are, life is better with a hot cup of coffee and a sandwich.
Was called WPA and they made a lot of infrastructute where I live.
and what goes the govt do about it? they waste their time pretending to worry about corruption in govt. when they are all corrupt.
Because the money ain’t shit.
A real Virginian
Actually it is real estate price inflation and no raises in pay which leads to homelessness. I know, I am homeless and I don’t drink, smoke or do drugs and when there are stairs to do I got a job. It just doesn’t pay enough to make a difference. Wages are 60 years out of date.