They spent $24B combating homelessness when there are 180,000 homeless people. That's over $130k per homeless person. You can literally just build houses at that price.
@@darex0827 Shelters put 200 in a room, you can put 4 homeless in a house together. 4 10x10 rooms (including closet) in each corner of the house, a 10x6 bathroom, and open 10x16 kitchen and 10x10 living room. That's 720sqft, call it 900 if you throw in the waterheater/ac room, hallway, laundry closet. You can stack them 3 high to maybe make it cheaper and throw in a staircase. At $400/sqft that's $360,000 or $90,000 per, leaving room for land acquisition. And that's current prices, would be cheaper over the last decade.
Finally, non-profits being exposed. The only reason homelessness increases exponentially is because it’s profitable. The lack of oversight is astounding! I endured working in the sector for 10 years and finally left because it almost killed me. I’d gone to our state’s AGs office where I discovered profound conflicts of interest. The entire sector is corrupt.
That's RW-politics. The corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics prioritize profits over people. If the working-class dupes in the US continue to vote for the RW-extremist Repubs & the moderate-RW Dems, then they're going to continue being ruled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
Since you have experience in the industry, yet your presence implies sympathy to the homeless, what handful of suggestions would you make for governments to address the problem?
@@PoochieCollins Loaded question. This is a national health and safety issue. There has to be some level of involuntary care for those not competent to make decisions. Quality addiction and mental health services and resources, high level medical staff that are committed and dedicated to positive outcomes, management and oversight with clear measurables based on best practices. For starters.
The problem is that there is almost zero oversight over those non-profits. The federal government has a whole career field to make sure the moneybis spent the right way. The state needs such a system.
Yes, I agree. My husband got fleeced an extra 50,000 in taxes that was mostly interest & penalties. My husband was laid off and looking for a job longer than 2009 & we had a rent increase. The EDD started his unemployment late & ended it early. I contacted a nonprofit about rental assistance & they told me that we did not have enough income for rental assistance. So, even though we pay the high taxes & never qualify for anything, they would have been fine with us losing everything we own & living in our car because my husband got laid off, faced age discrimination, and didn’t realize how long it takes to retire. California is so corrupt & sick. They abuse people who’ve lived here & paid taxes their entire lives.
Here in Oregon, my town was given a state grant to establish a full service homeless shelter. Our city government then proceeded to purchase an overpriced building to convert, only to find that it was not up to code for residential use. So instead of needed services and helping folks transition off the streets, all we can use this building for is short term emergency shelter during extreme cold or heat conditions outdoors. There needs to be enforced standards for such conversions. The wasted makes me both sad and disgusted.
Ultimately, the blame and responsibility are on the state. Giving anyone money without oversight and insistence on accountability is a recipe for corruption, misuse, and incompetency.
WE THE PEOPLE are the STATE. But we the people have proven that we are liars, cheats, thieves, and murderers, who CANNOT be trusted to govern ourselves. And so, the NEON GAUD -- that sentient machine and comptroller of our currency -- will be unveiled at the Great Worldwide Re-Set on 09/23/26. IT has the Plan to Perfect Humanity. Men and women will never lie, cheat, steal, or murder again -- so help us GAUD. You Will Be Happy. Resistance is fatal.
This is why I am so against Public/Private partnerships. They always just benefit the Private, at the cost of the public. START BUILDING OUR OWN AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
Modern, board room, style management is the biggest scandal in American business. These corporate boards are often interlocking and are accountable to no one. Imagine having a job in which you get to vote for your own "compensation package". I see it as looting, plain and simple. Just as this applies to for-profit businesses, it applies to so-called charities as well.
So why aren't these private outfits who receive grant money under a specific legal contract to finish their funded projects or be required to pay back the amount granted???? Misappropriation of public funds should be a federal crime.
It's time to go back to running state hospitals, building housing projects, and operating drug rehab centers. This has to be done in-house because if these or other non-profits and businesses get involved the money will just continue to get sucked into a black hole with nothing to show for it.
24 Billion distributed to 180 thousand homeless people would give $133 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO EACH ONE. Considering a $30,000 per year salary it would keep them going for 4 and half years EACH!!!
There is one detail that you’re missing. The homeless problem is growing by colossal levels, but it’s not just the mentally ill and drug addicts. That’s an old stereotype that is only partially true now. You can add into that families with jobs that don’t make the six figure bar, which means you can add people working two or three jobs to either make rent, or put food on the table, rarely both. Prepare yourselves, people, this is the future
The problem is the public-private partnerships. Those constantly end in massive graft. Here in Seattle, the county bought hotels and did the conversions. They currently house around 1000 people.
Stop using capitalism to solve a problem that capitalism created. The state should directly employ engineers and workers to do to the work, without all the for profit and so called non-profit companies.
If you non-profits are ineffective, they are either severely underfunded, or business are the entities behind these so-called non-profits. Non-profits are exempt from taxation, or pay very low taxes. It makes sense to pass money through them. This country is on a downward spiral unless they can curb these predatory practices.
Well yeah, a vacancy tax is urgently needed for the safety of our streets, but it has to be on a local basis. Many of the empty homes are in towns that no longer have any jobs.
TBF, the homeless won't be able to pay taxes (or often can't), can't be trusted with upkeep, and many of them will cause problems in their new neighborhoods until you get a big movement to stop the program. I'm for big social spending, but yeah, not "just use all the empty homes out there."
Housing First works in Finland. They put the homeless in buildings in downtown Helsinki and everyone gets along, and they have been there for as long as ten years or so. They have the drug addicts, mentally ill, anyone and everyone. The difference is that the people in charge there believe in their mission and not in just exploiting their position for personal gain. Invisible People did a video on it.
Where I’m at, there are housing authority workers lying to folx, over charging folx, and screwing us out of our Sec8 vouchers and other housing vouchers. It’s crazy. There’s nobody to help us fight it, either.
$20B wasted on this project alone could have been UBI for the poorest 5% of the population. Show us an ID, get some free money! That money in the hands of homeless would have then motivated builders to serve this market, making tiny new homes, or renting from hotel owners who could see the opportunity. Money to be made by all.. squandered by a few, thanks to trickle-down economics.
This why hospitals are so expensive, the CEOs do the same thing. They take a bunch of loans out on the hospitals name, pocket the money then sell the hospital. Now hospitals have to deal with the debt.
WE THE PEOPLE are the government. We the People have proven that we are liars, cheats, thieves, murderers and incompetents. We CANNOT be trusted to govern ourselves. HALF of America has an IQ below 89 -- sub-normal. These people cannot think for themselves. The best they can do is to repeat someone else's narrative. And OVER 93% of men and women are nearly deaf and blind spiritually. We call that, Normal. It has always been this way -- as in the days of Noah.
That should have been enough to end homelessness in California if they actually build low income housing, drug treatment centers and mental health facilities. If they didn't actually build anything they didn't do anything.💯
Not all non-profits for homelessness do that. Illinois has rather strict rules for this. The one I work for houses over 450 people, many of them chronically homeless and or with disabilities. We ended Veteran Homelessness in our area and around 30% of the people housed are families with kids. The key to our success is good management and government oversite and it sounds like this was not in the cases mentioned at all. A non-profit is what that name implies but then they teamed up with a for-profit company, what????????????? That sounds like a scam in the guise of non-profit. Our CEO doesn't get a car allowance either, just a reserved parking space. We don't get government funds either unless we actually house people. Government data (that all politicians get) states that the #1 cause of homelessness in the U.S. is lack of affordable housing.
Ana didn't do her homework on this one. She's relying on PBS/NPR and the LA Times instead of going to the peer-reviewed research. For a channel that hates establishment/corporate news, TYT relies an awful lot on establishment/corporate news when forming its own opinions on things like whether involuntary incarceration and treatment actually helps people whose principle problem is poverty and lack of resources to keep them healthy.
Contracting out our government services - needs to be halted. It's MORE expensive for taxpayers and not efficient. It's also difficult to yield accountability with contractors --- Medicare, anyone? Start emphasizing better management practices and get these services to the communities.
I am disabled enough that i can't get a job, it takes multiple years for Social Security to admit your claim, in the meantime, the county gives me $300. and if i use any of that to find housing they give me less next month, the county cash aid program doesn't give people enough money to rent a bed anywhere, and if you find someone who will let you crash on their couch, they give you less aid, it's INSANE!
@@isaac.anthony this right here is the actual problem. The govt seems to be the cause of homelessness. They’re supposed to help people but they do more harm than good.
More regulation on non profits showing proof of assistance of society. We should just have the government work on this and nobody else not third party because the private sector is evil and wasteful.
This story has inspired me to do my part to help the homeless. I'm going to request a $200 million grant from Newsom to build myself a nice big mansion with a hot tub and sauna which I will let a couple of homeless people hang out at occasionally, when it's raining or something.
The city in which I live once had 1 and 2 bedroom communities. For over 100 years. They have been torn down or homes had many additions built on. With no home of that size and affordability to replace them. Coupled with high energy cost. We are in trouble. Our communities by design no were built around the car. Now even cars can cost as much as a new home. It is no wonder that the numbers of people living in their cars are on the rise.
Money won’t solve homelessness because money is what has caused the concept of “homelessness”. Money creates haves and have nots. If you spend 34 billion on homelessness, it has to pass through so many greedy fingers to eventually help people at the end.
I myself being one of these homeless in Ça. The only thing I have received a parking spot at night from 6pm till 8am and the use of a porta potty. I guess a few billion doesn't get much these days. Thanks for the parking spot and the porta potty.
@@fod79 No, I’m asking you exactly what I asked you in my post. You said you were homeless, I’m asking you what to that? I’m not asking about other people.
This is why you don't have private businesses do the job of governments, I don't know why this is so hard for people to comprehend. I'm a random person and I genuinely feel I could be a better president then the vast majority of actual president's, because the policies needed to help people really aren't some genius ideas, it's pretty common sense
Once scammers get a government loan to a building, these scammers SOMEHOW manage to get a private loan on the building they could have owned with government money, then skidaddle away with all the money and never pay it back (or it's moved to scammy projects that never get finished and whose responsible people are borrowed names of people who suddenly go overseas or were a false identity). Where is civil forfeiture when it's actually needed???
Most of this is the HUD Super NOFA. I’ve written the main grant and project grant for several counties in central California. This money gets churned and churned into existing operating funds for nonprofits w minimal outputs and larger salaries and perks. The amount of money spent for just 1 housed person is egregious. The reporting requirements from the feds are so complex that most nonprofits give up. So many do this that the feds spend all their time planning how to enforce compliance. It’s disheartening bc the programs are really good if they weren’t so bogged down.
@@PoochieCollins I don’t know if I can express this succinctly but I’ll try. The general framework for the HUD super NOFA is a good multi pronged approach: mixed use, supportive, transitional, residential treatment, housing vouchers, rehabbing city owned properties, building multi family housing etc. The target populations are those in substance abuse treatment, vets, disabled, families, women escaping DV…each county describes their own populations needs and then nonprofit and local governments submit their projects to the entity responsible for coordinating the larger project, usually the county but in LA I think it’s another nonprofit (Tri Cities? It’s in the video 😆). So from the Feds we have lots of options to address local needs. HUD requires point in time surveys by the county programs for the life of the grant and fairly detailed tech specs up front. The problem is two- fold 1)HUD comes out w reporting requirements that are so rigorous they don’t account for modifications that are needed during the construction phase. It becomes a nightmare so that part falls apart and 2) the amount of money available for each project is high for local nonprofits, some that aren’t used to much scrutiny and some who are just poverty pimps or both. These nonprofits use the money to backfill existing debt or double fund salaries, equipment etc. Once money is granted at the local level it’s super hard to recoup. The other issue is a lot of the projects heavily favor ppl who are supposed to be in the housing temporarily (while in treatment or rehab), funding for permanent housing isn’t as favored by HUD or the nonprofits. There are pathways from supportive to permanent housing that need to be built up but this requires increasing housing stock. Which introduces the for profit sector into the equation. Once that happens all the fed money becomes fungible between HUD, the Counties and the nonprofits and their sub contractors. Think of Fred Trump and how he made his money. He got govt grants and blurred the lines between for and nonprofit until it was 100% for his profit. TLDR: The existing programs are good but fail in the transition from temporary to permanent housing. HUD needs to relax redundant reporting requirements so they can regain control of oversight. Any nonprofit that receives funds (directly or indirectly) needs to be auditable by HUD. IMO no one looks closely enough at the fact that while, everyone deserves housing, there are always ppl who you can pour into endlessly with no progress and there needs to be viable options for them while pouring more into ppl who will use those resources effectively.
Im 40, single dad, working the same job 15 years this year....living pay to pay sharing 50/50 with my ex....landlord came out of nowhere saying she wants to sell the house...i got less than 2 months to uproot and move...when i look around...the cheapeat place is 1200 a month and they want 3x the rent in income and no pets, i dont know how people are doing it...its getting so bad....even trailer parks are getting bought up and rents raised....unsustainable...when homelessness hits like 10% maybe something will change
I rented a house that was owned by the state. Big mistake. It was an old house with a bunch of problems, that they got me to fix up for them. They told me when I moved in that they might sell the house and would give me the first chance to buy it if they did. I was there less than a year and they decided to sell the house and gave me a month's notice to get out, and did not let me buy it, because they said it wouldn't be fair to the community to not put it on the market and let people make bids for it. They kicked everyone in the whole neighborhood out of their houses and sold them all to a developer for way over their market value, and didn't let anyone make any bids for them. And yeah, my rent doubled, and then just kept going up every year, until I got fed up and bought a house.
Thanks Ana for telling it is. You are one of the only people in media that actually looks at facts instead of just pandering to your audience and telling them what they want to hear. You've changed my mind re: housing first, now I think that approach only works if 1. the money and oversight for the building projects is properly managed with checks and balances in place and 2. housing should only be given to people who are in economic hardship, not those with addiction problems. If you are an addict, no amount of mony can solve the problem until the addiction is dealt with first. I think the best approach is to get clean first, housing second.
Quarterly reports of where every dollar goes. Any fraud or misappropration of funds is penalized with a 150% fine on top of the amount owed and a 1% compounded daily interest fee for up to 90 days. On the 91st day, if you fail to pay back the money you "lost" on top of the fine with the interest, you go to jail. This is for all management positions. Everyone in management will go to jail or pay the fine, doesnt matter if it wasnt you. This will force managers to police each other. The highest level manager will forfeit all private and personal assets to the state for public auction to make up the funds, and then they go to jail
California has lost its way. Back in the day I dreamed of going to California. Great climate, cool people great politics and very wealthy but things are starting to change now. Now you have a ton of these nimbes crying foul because they don’t want any new development and their cities, but they’d rather see people suffering and dying on the street. I really thought the California was more progressive and actually compassionate, but that’s just a veneer look what happened when they invited the dictator of China, which was horrible to begin with, and the city basically shuffled the homeless away. The state would rather throw money at a problem with no actual solution in place instead of doing the basic things that we all know work build Moore housing, Undo ordinances that don’t allow for a new building, especially in The pearl clutching suburban areas and making it illegal for Anybody or any corporation to own more than 50 units of housing? Housing should be all right, but if people aren’t gonna go in that direction, these are least the bare minimum they can do.
@@moimeme1640 24B for 180K people over 5 years is 26K and change per person per year. That's less than minimum wage amounts. Its not nothing, but not millionaire status.
These grifters should be in jail and their assets forfeited. It was mentioned there was 130000 homeless people. $24000000000 divided by 130000 is $184,615.38 per head and they're still homeless.
Most nonprofits in the west that are supposed to help the poor and homeless are using the money they receive from government and donations to pay their management teams ridiculous salary packages and allowances that their not qualified to receive..only a fraction is left after paying office , vehicle.lesses and extravagant salary and expenses to actually feed and house anyone in need and if they do anything it's done through a third party to deliver a few groceries to someone in need... it's just another gravy train funded by the tax payers to make politicians look good!!!.❤️🙏🇺🇲
Everyone that took the money for those projects that used it for something else, stole it and wasted it should go to jail. Why is there never any oversight of these programs? I squarely at the feet of the state leadership.
Every government audit has failed, it's like government doesn't keep any records, still they have a lot of workers hired to supposedly keep control over records 😂
The homeless situation is being engineered and manipulated into existence. It’s the result of social engineering agendas and the manipulation of bureaucratic bureaucracy processes into dysfunctional dynamics that create chains of causality creating both the homeless crisis and the economic exploitation consequences. The world is being ran by narcissistic sociopathic social engineering networking networks facilitating narcissistic sociopathic sociopolitical and economic exploitation agendas and purposes related to facilitating hierarchical social structures facilitating hegemonic control systems. In order to facilitate creating a police state they must first create a dysfunctional dystopian nightmare environment so that people will agree to surrendering their civil rights, property and liberty. It’s engineered by design. As is the economic warfare, culture warfare, social class warfare...
It's exploitation of the section 8 supplement system. Corporate landlords, large complexes just keep raising the rants, and that alters the rents of the neighborhood and the city. And the government just keeps giving them section 8 money straight to the landlords, so there's no bargaining power from the residents. Subsidized, housing would be great if the landlords were not manipulating the system. And then you have these corporations. Buying up all the rental properties to artificially inflate demand for housing.So, they can raise rents and raise the cost of properties.
Now do an investigation in Canada 🇨🇦 because it’s worse!!!!! We just have less people but compare it to how many facing and are vs how many people. This is getting bad.
There should absolutely be a state investigation as to where those funds for that hotel conversion went somebody needs to be accountable
They spent $24B combating homelessness when there are 180,000 homeless people. That's over $130k per homeless person. You can literally just build houses at that price.
Shhhh, you'll ruin the scam for all the already-rich people!
Lol, you think you could build a house in California for 130k?
You could give them $130K. Or yeah, build apartments for $130K per person.
@@darex0827 Shelters put 200 in a room, you can put 4 homeless in a house together. 4 10x10 rooms (including closet) in each corner of the house, a 10x6 bathroom, and open 10x16 kitchen and 10x10 living room. That's 720sqft, call it 900 if you throw in the waterheater/ac room, hallway, laundry closet. You can stack them 3 high to maybe make it cheaper and throw in a staircase. At $400/sqft that's $360,000 or $90,000 per, leaving room for land acquisition. And that's current prices, would be cheaper over the last decade.
its sick. And the people of California keep Gruesome as gov....smh
It's called corruption.
Finally, non-profits being exposed. The only reason homelessness increases exponentially is because it’s profitable. The lack of oversight is astounding! I endured working in the sector for 10 years and finally left because it almost killed me. I’d gone to our state’s AGs office where I discovered profound conflicts of interest. The entire sector is corrupt.
That's RW-politics. The corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics prioritize profits over people. If the working-class dupes in the US continue to vote for the RW-extremist Repubs & the moderate-RW Dems, then they're going to continue being ruled by the corrupt wealthy-class & their corrupt RW-politics.
Since you have experience in the industry, yet your presence implies sympathy to the homeless, what handful of suggestions would you make for governments to address the problem?
@@PoochieCollins Loaded question. This is a national health and safety issue. There has to be some level of involuntary care for those not competent to make decisions. Quality addiction and mental health services and resources, high level medical staff that are committed and dedicated to positive outcomes, management and oversight with clear measurables based on best practices. For starters.
I love how laws only apply to working class people, these people will never be charged and jailed. Disgusting 🤢 🤢
The problem is that there is almost zero oversight over those non-profits. The federal government has a whole career field to make sure the moneybis spent the right way. The state needs such a system.
Yes, I agree. My husband got fleeced an extra 50,000 in taxes that was mostly interest & penalties. My husband was laid off and looking for a job longer than 2009 & we had a rent increase. The EDD started his unemployment late & ended it early. I contacted a nonprofit about rental assistance & they told me that we did not have enough income for rental assistance. So, even though we pay the high taxes & never qualify for anything, they would have been fine with us losing everything we own & living in our car because my husband got laid off, faced age discrimination, and didn’t realize how long it takes to retire.
California is so corrupt & sick. They abuse people who’ve lived here & paid taxes their entire lives.
I was in Ocean Beach. They had about 300 homeless people. So they made a 10 year plan... spending 11 million to house 11 people. Wtf
How does 24 billion dollars go unaccounted for?!
Yep. Non-profits here in CO are HORRIBLE. one non-profit sucks up ALL of the housing for northern Colorado
Here in Oregon, my town was given a state grant to establish a full service homeless shelter. Our city government then proceeded to purchase an overpriced building to convert, only to find that it was not up to code for residential use. So instead of needed services and helping folks transition off the streets, all we can use this building for is short term emergency shelter during extreme cold or heat conditions outdoors. There needs to be enforced standards for such conversions. The wasted makes me both sad and disgusted.
They pocketed the money!!!! What else can it be???
Ultimately, the blame and responsibility are on the state. Giving anyone money without oversight and insistence on accountability is a recipe for corruption, misuse, and incompetency.
WE THE PEOPLE are the STATE. But we the people have proven that we are liars, cheats, thieves, and murderers, who CANNOT be trusted to govern ourselves. And so, the NEON GAUD -- that sentient machine and comptroller of our currency -- will be unveiled at the Great Worldwide Re-Set on 09/23/26. IT has the Plan to Perfect Humanity. Men and women will never lie, cheat, steal, or murder again -- so help us GAUD. You Will Be Happy. Resistance is fatal.
This is why I am so against Public/Private partnerships. They always just benefit the Private, at the cost of the public. START BUILDING OUR OWN AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
Modern, board room, style management is the biggest scandal in American business. These corporate boards are often interlocking and are accountable to no one. Imagine having a job in which you get to vote for your own "compensation package". I see it as looting, plain and simple. Just as this applies to for-profit businesses, it applies to so-called charities as well.
Corporate takeovers of affordable housing and doubling rents are driving homelessness.
Who is it that is doubling the rent? HUMMM!
@@extraart1 The corporations taking over the property, who else?
So why aren't these private outfits who receive grant money under a specific legal contract to finish their funded projects or be required to pay back the amount granted???? Misappropriation of public funds should be a federal crime.
It's time to go back to running state hospitals, building housing projects, and operating drug rehab centers. This has to be done in-house because if these or other non-profits and businesses get involved the money will just continue to get sucked into a black hole with nothing to show for it.
Criminal charges need to be applied to companies that stole the cash.
Absolutely agree!
24 Billion distributed to 180 thousand homeless people would give $133 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO EACH ONE. Considering a $30,000 per year salary it would keep them going for 4 and half years EACH!!!
Anyone who makes 30,000 a year in California is already homeless.
There is one detail that you’re missing. The homeless problem is growing by colossal levels, but it’s not just the mentally ill and drug addicts. That’s an old stereotype that is only partially true now. You can add into that families with jobs that don’t make the six figure bar, which means you can add people working two or three jobs to either make rent, or put food on the table, rarely both. Prepare yourselves, people, this is the future
The problem is the public-private partnerships. Those constantly end in massive graft. Here in Seattle, the county bought hotels and did the conversions. They currently house around 1000 people.
How much money for homeless is actually spent putting people in homes
Stop using capitalism to solve a problem that capitalism created. The state should directly employ engineers and workers to do to the work, without all the for profit and so called non-profit companies.
Taxes are meant be sent to Isreal and Ukraine, not to support US citizens. Pay your taxes and be happy.
Fist of all, these projects should never be expected to profit. The government is paying for it. They're work for hire. Period.
I think the homeless would do a better job with running the programs themselves. Where's the money people?
If you non-profits are ineffective, they are either severely underfunded, or business are the entities behind these so-called non-profits. Non-profits are exempt from taxation, or pay very low taxes. It makes sense to pass money through them. This country is on a downward spiral unless they can curb these predatory practices.
There is already more empty houses in America than there are homeless people. Remember that whenever anyone tells you there is supply problem.
Well yeah, a vacancy tax is urgently needed for the safety of our streets, but it has to be on a local basis. Many of the empty homes are in towns that no longer have any jobs.
TBF, the homeless won't be able to pay taxes (or often can't), can't be trusted with upkeep, and many of them will cause problems in their new neighborhoods until you get a big movement to stop the program. I'm for big social spending, but yeah, not "just use all the empty homes out there."
Housing First works in Finland. They put the homeless in buildings in downtown Helsinki and everyone gets along, and they have been there for as long as ten years or so. They have the drug addicts, mentally ill, anyone and everyone. The difference is that the people in charge there believe in their mission and not in just exploiting their position for personal gain. Invisible People did a video on it.
You could have just gave the homeless 150k each, and had a better outcome.
Often the case though, like in 2008.
Where I’m at, there are housing authority workers lying to folx, over charging folx, and screwing us out of our Sec8 vouchers and other housing vouchers. It’s crazy. There’s nobody to help us fight it, either.
$20B wasted on this project alone could have been UBI for the poorest 5% of the population. Show us an ID, get some free money! That money in the hands of homeless would have then motivated builders to serve this market, making tiny new homes, or renting from hotel owners who could see the opportunity. Money to be made by all.. squandered by a few, thanks to trickle-down economics.
This why hospitals are so expensive, the CEOs do the same thing. They take a bunch of loans out on the hospitals name, pocket the money then sell the hospital. Now hospitals have to deal with the debt.
It's more complex than that, but yeah, that's part of it.
Bottom line: politics and religion are the biggest grifts EVER. 🤔
I'm starting to think non-profits need to have 3rd party monitoring like casinos are required to.
The homeless should find the people who administered this $24 billion in funds and move in to their houses. That might motivate them to do better.
WE THE PEOPLE are the government. We the People have proven that we are liars, cheats, thieves, murderers and incompetents. We CANNOT be trusted to govern ourselves. HALF of America has an IQ below 89 -- sub-normal. These people cannot think for themselves. The best they can do is to repeat someone else's narrative. And OVER 93% of men and women are nearly deaf and blind spiritually. We call that, Normal. It has always been this way -- as in the days of Noah.
I was homeless in California. It is the easiest place to sleep as a homeless person and the hardest state to get food.
I’m happy to spend money for homeless. They should check to spend it efficiently though.
'Helping the Homeless ' is never to be solved. It's a big money maker .
Housing has to be made affordable. Get rid of draconian "zoning" and nimbyism
That should have been enough to end homelessness in California if they actually build low income housing, drug treatment centers and mental health facilities. If they didn't actually build anything they didn't do anything.💯
1000 people stole 1million equals a billion, still 23 billion unaccounted for
Not all non-profits for homelessness do that. Illinois has rather strict rules for this. The one I work for houses over 450 people, many of them chronically homeless and or with disabilities. We ended Veteran Homelessness in our area and around 30% of the people housed are families with kids. The key to our success is good management and government oversite and it sounds like this was not in the cases mentioned at all. A non-profit is what that name implies but then they teamed up with a for-profit company, what????????????? That sounds like a scam in the guise of non-profit. Our CEO doesn't get a car allowance either, just a reserved parking space. We don't get government funds either unless we actually house people. Government data (that all politicians get) states that the #1 cause of homelessness in the U.S. is lack of affordable housing.
Ana didn't do her homework on this one. She's relying on PBS/NPR and the LA Times instead of going to the peer-reviewed research.
For a channel that hates establishment/corporate news, TYT relies an awful lot on establishment/corporate news when forming its own opinions on things like whether involuntary incarceration and treatment actually helps people whose principle problem is poverty and lack of resources to keep them healthy.
Contracting out our government services - needs to be halted. It's MORE expensive for taxpayers and not efficient. It's also difficult to yield accountability with contractors --- Medicare, anyone? Start emphasizing better management practices and get these services to the communities.
I am disabled enough that i can't get a job, it takes multiple years for Social Security to admit your claim, in the meantime, the county gives me $300. and if i use any of that to find housing they give me less next month, the county cash aid program doesn't give people enough money to rent a bed anywhere, and if you find someone who will let you crash on their couch, they give you less aid, it's INSANE!
@@isaac.anthony this right here is the actual problem. The govt seems to be the cause of homelessness. They’re supposed to help people but they do more harm than good.
@@angelinacisneros7831 No, they just don't do enough, if they gave me enough to pay rent, i wouldn't be homeless.
@@isaac.anthonyI don’t see why they don’t give direct rent payments to people who need it. Instead they give money to these non-profits…..so wasteful.
@@angelinacisneros7831 because bailing out people is evil communism, and that can't happen in America!
More regulation on non profits showing proof of assistance of society. We should just have the government work on this and nobody else not third party because the private sector is evil and wasteful.
This story has inspired me to do my part to help the homeless. I'm going to request a $200 million grant from Newsom to build myself a nice big mansion with a hot tub and sauna which I will let a couple of homeless people hang out at occasionally, when it's raining or something.
The city in which I live once had 1 and 2 bedroom communities. For over 100 years. They have been torn down or homes had many additions built on. With no home of that size and affordability to replace them. Coupled with high energy cost. We are in trouble. Our communities by design no were built around the car. Now even cars can cost as much as a new home. It is no wonder that the numbers of people living in their cars are on the rise.
Translation: Greed + zero oversight ...
Greed is @ a all time high!
Money won’t solve homelessness because money is what has caused the concept of “homelessness”. Money creates haves and have nots.
If you spend 34 billion on homelessness, it has to pass through so many greedy fingers to eventually help people at the end.
As long as there's groups making money from it, the problem will never be solved.
That's what you get for letting a "nonprofit" handle what should be the purview of a state agency.
I believe the transition from state funded agencies to non profits came about under the watch of republicans in the 80s and early 90s.
@@BettyBlack99 The state's captured by private real estate in California. It's holding the state back. Gavin Newsome is a Republican
It's not just California. Missoula Montana's homeless funds is guilty also
That’s why, just like the military, they call it the homeless industrial complex
Corruption is the single factor currently driving EVERY SINGLE CRISIS we face as a nation and a species.
This is the biggest reason we should not outsource government work to privatized companies
Why do news media tell us what we already been knowing and act like it’s ground breaking?
I myself being one of these homeless in Ça. The only thing I have received a parking spot at night from 6pm till 8am and the use of a porta potty. I guess a few billion doesn't get much these days. Thanks for the parking spot and the porta potty.
What lead you to become homeless?
@Onewayto2024
Rent increasing directly increases homelessness. Are you asking what are the causes for rent rising so fast?
@@Onewayto2024 Hello
I couldn't afford my apartment after my room mate got married. I'm a disabled senior.
@@fod79
No, I’m asking you exactly what I asked you in my post. You said you were homeless, I’m asking you what to that? I’m not asking about other people.
@@loris6413
I’m sorry to hear that. Are you now homeless?
This is clearly a scam.
This is why you don't have private businesses do the job of governments, I don't know why this is so hard for people to comprehend. I'm a random person and I genuinely feel I could be a better president then the vast majority of actual president's, because the policies needed to help people really aren't some genius ideas, it's pretty common sense
Random person for president 2024.
@@imnotmike they'll first have to be in the cabinet of the President Camacho / VP Not Sure ticket.
California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, and many more need more checks and balances. A system that makes corruption impossible and not encouraged.
You’re supposed to list states that are all run by the same party and pretend that everything is that party’s fault. It’s the American way.
The people vs. all these crooks asap... and can we get a law where embezzling tax payer money get double the sentence
Greed imploding
Once scammers get a government loan to a building, these scammers SOMEHOW manage to get a private loan on the building they could have owned with government money, then skidaddle away with all the money and never pay it back (or it's moved to scammy projects that never get finished and whose responsible people are borrowed names of people who suddenly go overseas or were a false identity). Where is civil forfeiture when it's actually needed???
Austin is following LAs lead. Homelessness is a big money making racket and great way to launder money.
But wait, I thought the private sector could do things better and cheaper....
Most of this is the HUD Super NOFA. I’ve written the main grant and project grant for several counties in central California. This money gets churned and churned into existing operating funds for nonprofits w minimal outputs and larger salaries and perks. The amount of money spent for just 1 housed person is egregious. The reporting requirements from the feds are so complex that most nonprofits give up. So many do this that the feds spend all their time planning how to enforce compliance. It’s disheartening bc the programs are really good if they weren’t so bogged down.
With your experience, can you elaborate on how governments should address homelessness?
@@PoochieCollins I don’t know if I can express this succinctly but I’ll try. The general framework for the HUD super NOFA is a good multi pronged approach: mixed use, supportive, transitional, residential treatment, housing vouchers, rehabbing city owned properties, building multi family housing etc. The target populations are those in substance abuse treatment, vets, disabled, families, women escaping DV…each county describes their own populations needs and then nonprofit and local governments submit their projects to the entity responsible for coordinating the larger project, usually the county but in LA I think it’s another nonprofit (Tri Cities? It’s in the video 😆). So from the Feds we have lots of options to address local needs. HUD requires point in time surveys by the county programs for the life of the grant and fairly detailed tech specs up front. The problem is two- fold 1)HUD comes out w reporting requirements that are so rigorous they don’t account for modifications that are needed during the construction phase. It becomes a nightmare so that part falls apart and 2) the amount of money available for each project is high for local nonprofits, some that aren’t used to much scrutiny and some who are just poverty pimps or both. These nonprofits use the money to backfill existing debt or double fund salaries, equipment etc. Once money is granted at the local level it’s super hard to recoup. The other issue is a lot of the projects heavily favor ppl who are supposed to be in the housing temporarily (while in treatment or rehab), funding for permanent housing isn’t as favored by HUD or the nonprofits. There are pathways from supportive to permanent housing that need to be built up but this requires increasing housing stock. Which introduces the for profit sector into the equation. Once that happens all the fed money becomes fungible between HUD, the Counties and the nonprofits and their sub contractors. Think of Fred Trump and how he made his money. He got govt grants and blurred the lines between for and nonprofit until it was 100% for his profit.
TLDR: The existing programs are good but fail in the transition from temporary to permanent housing. HUD needs to relax redundant reporting requirements so they can regain control of oversight. Any nonprofit that receives funds (directly or indirectly) needs to be auditable by HUD.
IMO no one looks closely enough at the fact that while, everyone deserves housing, there are always ppl who you can pour into endlessly with no progress and there needs to be viable options for them while pouring more into ppl who will use those resources effectively.
Im 40, single dad, working the same job 15 years this year....living pay to pay sharing 50/50 with my ex....landlord came out of nowhere saying she wants to sell the house...i got less than 2 months to uproot and move...when i look around...the cheapeat place is 1200 a month and they want 3x the rent in income and no pets, i dont know how people are doing it...its getting so bad....even trailer parks are getting bought up and rents raised....unsustainable...when homelessness hits like 10% maybe something will change
I rented a house that was owned by the state. Big mistake. It was an old house with a bunch of problems, that they got me to fix up for them. They told me when I moved in that they might sell the house and would give me the first chance to buy it if they did. I was there less than a year and they decided to sell the house and gave me a month's notice to get out, and did not let me buy it, because they said it wouldn't be fair to the community to not put it on the market and let people make bids for it. They kicked everyone in the whole neighborhood out of their houses and sold them all to a developer for way over their market value, and didn't let anyone make any bids for them. And yeah, my rent doubled, and then just kept going up every year, until I got fed up and bought a house.
When money laundering isn't enough you add property laundering.
I'm so glad that Anna opened up her eyes and She isn't biased anymore. Anna You are a very intelligent young Lady. ❤
Maybe redefine what a nonprofit is. Define what percentage of the grant must go to the recipients and ask for receipts.
Make grants conditional upon voluntary consent to be monitored throughout the entire process. That might weed out potential scammers. Maybe.
Give me $100k and I'll refurbish the entire building myself
Thanks Ana for telling it is. You are one of the only people in media that actually looks at facts instead of just pandering to your audience and telling them what they want to hear. You've changed my mind re: housing first, now I think that approach only works if 1. the money and oversight for the building projects is properly managed with checks and balances in place and 2. housing should only be given to people who are in economic hardship, not those with addiction problems. If you are an addict, no amount of mony can solve the problem until the addiction is dealt with first. I think the best approach is to get clean first, housing second.
A front to fleece the masses.
Quarterly reports of where every dollar goes.
Any fraud or misappropration of funds is penalized with a 150% fine on top of the amount owed and a 1% compounded daily interest fee for up to 90 days. On the 91st day, if you fail to pay back the money you "lost" on top of the fine with the interest, you go to jail. This is for all management positions. Everyone in management will go to jail or pay the fine, doesnt matter if it wasnt you. This will force managers to police each other. The highest level manager will forfeit all private and personal assets to the state for public auction to make up the funds, and then they go to jail
Why would they want to fix the problem? Then their funding dries up.
Why all govt programs fail.
The people in charge jf solving homelessness know that if they did their job theyd be out of a job
California has lost its way. Back in the day I dreamed of going to California. Great climate, cool people great politics and very wealthy but things are starting to change now. Now you have a ton of these nimbes crying foul because they don’t want any new development and their cities, but they’d rather see people suffering and dying on the street. I really thought the California was more progressive and actually compassionate, but that’s just a veneer look what happened when they invited the dictator of China, which was horrible to begin with, and the city basically shuffled the homeless away. The state would rather throw money at a problem with no actual solution in place instead of doing the basic things that we all know work build Moore housing, Undo ordinances that don’t allow for a new building, especially in The pearl clutching suburban areas and making it illegal for Anybody or any corporation to own more than 50 units of housing? Housing should be all right, but if people aren’t gonna go in that direction, these are least the bare minimum they can do.
This is so upsetting🤦♀
$24B... all of these homeless coulda been millionaires with that...
Your math skills are terrible.
Lol 🤣 hahahahahaaha
@@darex0827 than you do the math einstein
@@moimeme1640 24B for 180K people over 5 years is 26K and change per person per year. That's less than minimum wage amounts. Its not nothing, but not millionaire status.
@@darex0827 thanks for correcting. you're right, it's not millionaire, but still something
That's not the only scam, more to come
Most of it probably went to cops
These grifters should be in jail and their assets forfeited. It was mentioned there was 130000 homeless people. $24000000000 divided by 130000 is $184,615.38 per head and they're still homeless.
It was 180.000 homeless/. I think LA county has 100,000 homeless alone.
That’s cuz the money doesn’t go to homeless people, just like the money that went to build schools in Iraq never built any schools
I think we need to regulate these non profits n protest. Let’s do everything in house government workers.
Don’t go right wing on this Anna
Tackle this from a leftist point of view with leftist solutions that work
@@Aequalis-r6hbetter idea ABOLISH the non profits and just build low income housing and give the homeless $$$ directly
@@Aequalis-r6hyeah give them money directly
Most nonprofits in the west that are supposed to help the poor and homeless are using the money they receive from government and donations to pay their management teams ridiculous salary packages and allowances that their not qualified to receive..only a fraction is left after paying office , vehicle.lesses and extravagant salary and expenses to actually feed and house anyone in need and if they do anything it's done through a third party to deliver a few groceries to someone in need... it's just another gravy train funded by the tax payers to make politicians look good!!!.❤️🙏🇺🇲
Everyone that took the money for those projects that used it for something else, stole it and wasted it should go to jail. Why is there never any oversight of these programs? I squarely at the feet of the state leadership.
Private equity firms have screwed up the housing market anyway so housing is screwed up anyway
Katy Porter needs to run for governor. She would take care of this.
Every government audit has failed, it's like government doesn't keep any records, still they have a lot of workers hired to supposedly keep control over records 😂
Anna needs her own show away from TYT.
24 billion and no bart to solano county ,and they want to ban gas vehicles.
I used to work for a housing authority. All the corruption I would see I very common
This people need to pay back and go to jail.
The homeless situation is being engineered and manipulated into existence.
It’s the result of social engineering agendas and the manipulation of bureaucratic bureaucracy processes into dysfunctional dynamics that create chains of causality creating both the homeless crisis and the economic exploitation consequences.
The world is being ran by narcissistic sociopathic social engineering networking networks facilitating narcissistic sociopathic sociopolitical and economic exploitation agendas and purposes related to facilitating hierarchical social structures facilitating hegemonic control systems.
In order to facilitate creating a police state they must first create a dysfunctional dystopian nightmare environment so that people will agree to surrendering their civil rights, property and liberty.
It’s engineered by design.
As is the economic warfare, culture warfare, social class warfare...
It's exploitation of the section 8 supplement system.
Corporate landlords, large complexes just keep raising the rants, and that alters the rents of the neighborhood and the city.
And the government just keeps giving them section 8 money straight to the landlords, so there's no bargaining power from the residents.
Subsidized, housing would be great if the landlords were not manipulating the system.
And then you have these corporations. Buying up all the rental properties to artificially inflate demand for housing.So, they can raise rents and raise the cost of properties.
How come I’m not homeless???
Now do an investigation in Canada 🇨🇦 because it’s worse!!!!! We just have less people but compare it to how many facing and are vs how many people. This is getting bad.
Sounds like a case of embezzlement to me
There are homeless came from other states into California because of warm weather. California should get money from those states.
This is extremely sick.