Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
California’s homeless crisis proves the public sector is a welfare program and political tool. The California State Auditor released a report this month that reveals California’s programs to combat homelessness have been utterly ineffective. Nine agencies funded by the state have received billions from 2018 to 2023, but homelessness is rapidly rising and California hosts the largest homeless population in the nation. What have these public agencies done with the $24 BILLION they were awarded to combat homelessness?
Homelessness have risen by 56.7% in California since 2015. The federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has been used to funnel money to smaller state entities under the impression that they would use the money to assist the people. California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal ICH) takes the funding from HUD to coordinate with these main nine failed programs, but the audit found that CAL ICH has failed to consistently track where this money has gone and has zero methods in place for gathering data on the success of these federally funded initiatives.
“Cal ICH’s statutory goals give it specific responsibilities as the State’s primary resource for homelessness policy coordination and accountability. However, it has also been directly managing multiple large grant programs as mandated by statute, including the multibillion‑dollar HHAP program and the more‑than‑$700 million ERF program,” the study found.
The audit could “not determine the cost-effectiveness” of any of the programs funded by HUD through Cal ICH as they have “not collected complete outcome data for this program, and the expenditure data it has collected may be unreliable.”
This means that the federal government permitted the state of California to squander $24 BILLION in taxpayer funds in a mere five years. They were provided this money with no strings attached and were not required to prove that their agencies were working. As Argentina’s Javier Milei said, “The origins of our evils is the cancer called the public sector.” There are people within these non-profit agencies making a lot of money to do absolutely nothing. The public sector has largely become a form of government welfare as they produce nothing but expect everything. If these agencies actually combatted homelessness, they’d be out of work.
For example, CEO of Dignity Health, Lloyd H. Dean of California was the highest paid nonprofit executive in 2022 after taking home $35.5 million when his agency made a revenue of $9.5 billion. Second in line was Gregory Adams of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, who earned $15.6 million with a revenue of $68.1 billion. The third highest-paid non-profit role went to Teresa Campbell of San Diego County Credit Union, who earned $11.8 million on a revenue of $305.2 million. Their organizations are largely tax-exempt since they’re not for profit.
The audit concluded that the state should be held accountable and have some form of reporting standards in place. “To promote transparency, accountability, and effective decision‑making related to the State’s efforts to address homelessness, Cal ICH should request that state agencies responsible for administering state‑funded homelessness programs provide spending‑ and outcome‑related information for people entering, experiencing, and exiting homelessness,” the audit concluded.
They should completely eliminate these agencies. The $24 billion was certainly enough to see that these agencies are merely leeching off of society, preying upon the most vulnerable in our nation. How could homelessness have more than doubled since these agencies were implemented? Simple. The people in control of the money are misusing the funds.
Those who want socialism or social justice fail to realize that this is precisely what happens to entire nations when the public sector becomes the supreme leader. They create useless agencies that continue to grow like cancerous cells, multiplying in size and in funding. THEY PRODUCE NOTHING! The federal government provides them funding without expecting results. This is a dirty game that the federal government plays with its pet state, and in the end, we the people always lose.
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The 24 billion has made a lot of rich people richer thereby further insulating their selves from being homeless.
ZFG, out.
P.S. so what if no actual homeless were saved. The 501c3 grifters were content. Seriously, it is all a con.
If that woman is telling the truth about her pay, with benefits she is at $250k or more per year. Undoubtedly there are annual bonuses, probably an expense account, etc. Let’s round up to $300k per year for her, that’s a realistic estimate.
She looks to be in her deep 40s, so let’s say she works in her role, as-is, for another 20 years.
That’s $3 million+ in compensation over 10 years, and well over $6 million in comp over 20 years. Do you think she has a pension, too?
Bring on the crash, greatest depression, Deagle, Fatima- any of them, or all of them, it doesn’t much matter at this point.
Once you’ve reached that point where you would willingly suffer death to inflict in on your enemy? congratulations! You JUST became a “palestinian” !
‘It’s difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it’ Upton socialist Sinclair
Or sumpin to that effect..
Yup. Pretty sure that “woman” doesn’t want to end homelessness.
A lot of “non profits” are a legal grift for the executives of the non-profit. Exorbitant salaries and expense accounts are the rule not the exception. DC is rife with people who work for non-profits continually lobbying the Fed govt for grants and corporations for donations. Always look at what percentage goes to the actual cause/people the non-profit is fronting for. You would be shocked at how many well-known charities use most of their funds for administrative expenses, which are salaries, cars, plush offices, etc. for its executives.
Amen!!! Spot on.
That’s why I don’t donate to charities.
POSIWID in effect.
If you create a program/agency/policy it doesn’t matter what it purports to be or do, only the outcome. Since the creation of the Department of Education, for example, literacy has declined. Since the creation of the DEA, drug use and deaths have increased dramatically. We could do this all day.
The reason these organizations exist is to promote, perpetuate and profit from homelessness, not eliminate or ameliorate the condition.
How this is a surprise to anyone is beyond my ability to comprehend.
Like they say in the post-modern world, it is what it is.
Did you see that article somewhere this past week stating homeschoolers were completing all of middle school in way under a year only 2-3 hours per day?
The Karens are very worried none of these kids will know how to bugger each other or that they can change their sexes or wear animal ears and tails. They are doing horrible things like graduating from Junior College at 15 or 16. Truly frightening stuff. LOL!
The goal of every bureaucracy is to grow in budget and power.
They are not concerned with alleviating the problems assigned to them, but to make those problem worse, which increases their budgets.
Create the problem then force the solution on to the taxpayer.
At $242k/year, I bet he (or she?) has a big house in a nice neighborhood with lots of room. So at least there’s that. And ya can’t argue with success. If it works, it works. Right?
Set up camps and provide food, water, tents, bathroom facilities and most important ALL THE DRUGS and pipes and syringes they want for FREE. Sorry, no medical services.
You can check out but you can never leave. Give them what they want! They don’t want help, they don’t want to commit crimes, they don’t want to shit in the streets, they don’t want to find God….. they want to GET HIGH!! It is there purpose in life. Why is that so hard for people to understand?
Where are the families and friends of most of these people? Those bridges have been burned. These people are already dead, re-hab is expensive does not last once back out on the streets.
Most will die in a few weeks…happy and high! Crime goes down, money is saved in the long run. Separate lifestyle by choice from those that might be worth helping.
I am dead serious, nothing else is working.
They do in some places. The average lifespan was 1 1/2 years after they were given the free housing.
The more unproductives that cross our southern border, the less effective you fuckwits will become…which I didn’t think was mathematically possible, but there you have it.
Born middle class. Die middle class…IF you’re very lucky.
If you live on California near a homeless camp put out signs saying will work for cash near the camp.
People from the camp will start working because there will be no taxes or regulations on their employment.
The under ground economy is a wonderful thing.
Eventually the encampment will start to shrink and eventually disappear.
I know I did this back in the 70’s to a communist commune. It took about two years for it to destroy itself.
I used to be a volunteer for Habitats for Humanity helping to refurbish bank re-po houses to be sold to low income people in So. Oregon. The last project I was on, was building a group of tiny houses for a project called “hope village”. This was across the street from vacant land that was permanently occupied by about 20 to 30 people living in tents.
Not once did any of them come over to help, but they did come over to ask for money and ask how they could live there, while drinking beers and smoking pot. We had to put a fence around it to keep them from stealing. After about three weeks of that, I said fuck this and fuck these useless pieces of shit.
Struggled with this in Arizona one year. The home owner it was designated to was required to put in a certain amount of work into the house, which was what kept us going. Otherwise we too would have said, nope no more.
To my fellow Christians out there, please do not volunteer or give money to Habitat for Humanity. They have a rule not to share the Gospel with the Homeowner. They are supposed to be a Christian Organization, started by a Christian, yet they don’t allow you to share the Gospel with the Homeowner you are working on their House What’s up with that??? Just say no to Habitat for Humanity.
Cultic communists always favour bigger govt. Bigger govt means more extortion money can be squeezed from the proles. Its all money laundering schemes and the upper ‘class’ komrades get the dachas’.
PLEASE PLEASE SEE THIS!!!
Victor Davis Hanson Offers the Final Warning: America’s Last Chance Before Collapse!!
Amen Martin!!! While on Facebook, I encountered a Commercial for The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews begging for money. So I check the salary of the CEO. It was $820,000!!!!!!!! No thanks, I’m good. Please people, before you give to a Charity or Religious Organization, check what the Senior Management pays themselves. You would be absolutely shocked at the obscene, ridiculously outrageous salaries they or their Boards pay them.
P.S. Franklin Graham makes 1.2 Million Dollars a year!!!
She/it should start swinging a hammer, Homelessness ends one nail at a time.
Ask the Christ, our Lord
The public sector CAUSED the current homelessness epidemic, going all the way back to Ronnie Reagan. Before that it was mostly vets after wars that where discharged and needed jobs.
“The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their poverty” – Benjamin Franklin, cold hearted realist