For sure, you should’ve seen the budget meeting last week. Pathetic. 7 billion unaccounted for. Some asked during the meeting what does 7 billion for general expenses mean? That they weren’t comfortable with that being labeled as general expenses. There weren’t receipts of any kind. It was all just PowerPoint. Then the activists started coming in at the end. Talking about how the church Scientology is a cult, and started listing all the council members who were involved with the church. Going off about the explosions and the tunnels being built.
"Change is linked to shifting identity" and that behavior occurs in a context. Historically and nationwide people who "intentionally left their homes behind to 'resettle" were called "settlers or pioneers." Greedy communities then "shifted" the way "city settlers" were consistently "defined," and so ambitious beliefs and resourceful habits to resettle with higher standards became "unhoused" like their social identity. "Change your identity and you change your habits and vice-versa. ---James Clear, "Atomic Habits."
Addressing the homeless problem is a very big and profitable business. That's why those NGOs and their activists want to keep their gigs going for as long as possible. I am sure a lot of the politicians' relatives and donors made a lot of money off this project.
All talks, but no work only pocket money as that what corruption government do. They thinks all the way to pocket tax payers money and don't have to do a dime thing.
"Change is linked to shifting identity" and that behavior occurs in a context. Historically and nationwide people who "intentionally left their homes behind to 'resettle" were called "settlers or pioneers." Greedy communities then "shifted" the way "city settlers" were consistently "defined," and so ambitious beliefs and resourceful habits to resettle with higher standards became "unhoused" like their social identity. "Change your identity and you change your habits and vice-versa. ---James Clear, "Atomic Habits."
TAKE A BIG GUESS?? CLUE ONE THE BIG SHOTS THAT ARE PROMISING NEW PROMISES FOR THE DAME THING THEY PROMISED 4 YEARS AGO. HIKING PRICES TAXES AND DOING NOTHING. 😂😂😂😂 CLEARLY WE NEED TO LEADERSHIP THAT IS GOING TO DO SOMETHING. VOTE VOTE VOTE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP! 👍❤🎉
I love how everyone is so shocked about this. This has been a known fact for at least the past three years. They do not want help. They want to do drugs and steal without having any rules.
That and the people who actually want help can’t get it. I had a friend who’s been homeless a few times and when they tried to get a place to stay they turned her away because she was in good enough shape to make it on her own. Or they said she had to give her little dog up to get help. She didn’t want to give up her dog and she was driven enough she was trying to get a job and had applied for food stamps and other assistance that she didn’t need help. The people who don’t want help need mental facilities and drug addiction assistance. Then the people who need help aren’t getting it because they are trying. These places are doing this just to embezzle the money and not help the people who actually want help.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest here. You completely missed the point. Your government and their cronies took the money. This is not the fault of the poor as you would so want it to be, it’s the rich that are at fault here.
One of the hardest rules is they must leave their pets behind/give them up. Their pets are their best friends and help them cope. That's an untold part of the story.
This is shocking…what the hell is going on? Every taxpayer should demand accountability from the responsible people or the organizations. This is outrages. More than HALF A BILLION spent and buildings still vacant and homeless people still on the streets. Oh my goodness! people work so hard for every penny of their paycheck and here the tax money is wasted like it’s nobody’s business. Very very disappointed.
Can't do drugs in these rooms, security does a decent screening. Most of these people in La and oc, most not all, would prefer to stay high on drugs and on the streets. Cali needs to get tough on crime. Vote red.
Alot of people make alot of money working at "non profits". Lots of salaries paid and expenses charged so that there is not a profit at the end of a year. Please interview the mayor and city council.
"The developer spent the money on luxury goods????' They should be ashamed of themselves but of course they aren't. Before my grandmother's construction worker died, he confessed to her that he was pocketing a lot of the money he was suppose to use for good construction material. He used the cheapest and pocketed the money. Disguting!!!! As a result over the years money was shelled out the do it right. 🤬🤬
I used to live in Los Angeles twenty two (22) years ago. I saw homeless people, but now it got worse. The State needs to be Republican again. If the State of California, continues to be a Democratic State the homeless population will get worse.
I was called all sort of names when I mentioned that the money burning strategy is a front for laundering and embezzlement. I am not a genius, just someone that can equate prop 47 spectacular failure to this in LA and SF county.
Really appreciate these two reporters doing this work. where did the money go...I wonder....There needs to be accountability for every dollar of federal money and where it went.
Honestly some want to keep their pets, and homeless shelters are bad places if you are honest, too. They steal the money fellow homeless people have. The simpler, cheaper solution of liveable sheds within gated communities with kitchens, bathrooms and laundry facilities counseling and medical facilities solves a lot of that. Put the sheds on wheels and if the people get jobs outside of the community they can take their portable shed with them and reduce the worries of theft.
Unless I'm missing something, it seems like they need an outreach program or some other mechanism for hooking up the homeless people with all those empty units. Why has that not happened before now?
Many of us already knew where the money went and who benefited from it, definitely not the homeless or the communities. Please don't vote for any more these bills or measures until everyone involved is held accountable.
Did she check if these abandoned places where operating? They were closed and fenced in. We had hotels that lost the funding when the pandemic ended and look like the buildings she is filming. How did she get 70% empty when she does not have a list of properties or numbers of rooms? This article left me with more questions than answers. When she mentioned Ventura, well, the federal government stopped funding the shelters here when the pandemic ended.
So republican politicians don't steal and embezzle funds? Hate to break it to you, a politician is a politician. Just remember, in the past 40 years both parties share the same amount of time at the governor's seat in California
To be fair, homeless administrators' lives matter too. Many are degree holders and these good jobs are meant to compensate them for their hard work earning these degrees.
The homeless are being offered shelters instead of rooms. The homeless would say yes to hotel rooms. They don't want disgusting shelter beds. The hotels need to be near services and jobs.
I really believe not one more cent should be given to homeless people. It is a boondoggle. There needs to be complete and total weekly oversight with one central PRIVATE CORPORATE overseer. If those who have been given funds do not cooperate, they get sued and no more money given to them. The private corporation tasked with this oversight should be given incentives to weed out and stop this homeless housing grifting b. s.
Most of the homeless are out of sight but honourable They're working but either couch surfing, living out of their vehicles, or living 20 to a studio apartment. Some just need to keep their pet but face barriers at shelters because of that.. The homelessness industrial complex want you to blame the homeless instead of the HIC...
Yet I get thrown through the revolving doors of the judicial system? Deprived of housing for defending myself against bullying? I'm homeless, have struggled with addiction, yet I actually WANT to live a normal happy life, whatever that means, so I've actually been working on changing the things within MYSELF, and here I am repeatedly getting challenged against my past? Idk but all the stress and traumas and disappointments are what lead to drug use, it's one's way of avoiding the violence and depression
No American city or government really meant for anyone like me to go indoors. You have invested in buildings and paid the owners. Americans like that I'm still outside. It's not impossible to house everyone. You wouldn't.
Which is funny Eric Garshitty tried, abiet not very hard, to fix the homeless problem by throwing money at the problem too with no results except wasted taxpayer dollars. And here we are same people voting for the same type of officials blowing smoke up voters asses about solving/fixing/reducing to homeless issue 🤔. Hmmmm I guess out taxpayer money isn't paying these politicians enough money to figure out better solutions.
Alot of people make alot of money working at "non profits". Lots of salaries paid and expenses charged so that there is not a profit at the end of a year.
Get the crooked politicians out of their huge homes and let them live like I'm forced to. I'm afraid every night and my food and stove keep getting stolen, I have to spend more money to replace everything I had. I need real help now
There's an INFORMATION GAP. The people that need these places don't have a place to find this information. You call a place and tell you there's a "long waiting list". So you become discouraged and give up looking. I know because I'm on the edge of homelessness and don't know where to go with all my stuff. 😢
Be in their shoe, how many times per day you like to keep packing and moving. It exhausting moving and moving and moving and moving because all places kicked them out ASAP.
@@rollinia7770 And they left out that they disallow pets. And that theft is rampant in the shelters. You have a little money/personal items from your day job and it's gone cone the morning. Lots of working homeless. The original commentor likes to keep that out...
You have been figured it out yet? It's a scam. Its a racket.
Wonder where the tax money is at? Embezzled.
Probably
@@ryandavenport5120I'm betting 95% probable.
I'm being generous. 🙄
For sure, you should’ve seen the budget meeting last week. Pathetic. 7 billion unaccounted for.
Some asked during the meeting what does 7 billion for general expenses mean? That they weren’t comfortable with that being labeled as general expenses. There weren’t receipts of any kind. It was all just PowerPoint.
Then the activists started coming in at the end. Talking about how the church Scientology is a cult, and started listing all the council members who were involved with the church. Going off about the explosions and the tunnels being built.
Time for full audits on these useless ‘nonprofits’ and jail time for anybody who stole funds! 😡
The audit probably would be of no use because the money probably went untracked
What ever happened they got ton of money from scamming California to buy an island to escape.
"Change is linked to shifting identity" and that behavior occurs in a context. Historically and nationwide people who "intentionally left their homes behind to 'resettle" were called "settlers or pioneers." Greedy communities then "shifted" the way "city settlers" were consistently "defined," and so ambitious beliefs and resourceful habits to resettle with higher standards became "unhoused" like their social identity. "Change your identity and you change your habits and vice-versa. ---James Clear, "Atomic Habits."
Addressing the homeless problem is a very big and profitable business. That's why those NGOs and their activists want to keep their gigs going for as long as possible. I am sure a lot of the politicians' relatives and donors made a lot of money off this project.
All talks, but no work only pocket money as that what corruption government do. They thinks all the way to pocket tax payers money and don't have to do a dime thing.
You nailed it.
"Change is linked to shifting identity" and that behavior occurs in a context. Historically and nationwide people who "intentionally left their homes behind to 'resettle" were called "settlers or pioneers." Greedy communities then "shifted" the way "city settlers" were consistently "defined," and so ambitious beliefs and resourceful habits to resettle with higher standards became "unhoused" like their social identity. "Change your identity and you change your habits and vice-versa. ---James Clear, "Atomic Habits."
Pretty sure there is a mile-long line of builders wanting to score a $800/sqft contracts to build hundreds of porta-shacks.
Project Lost Key & Stolen Money.
Non profits living well though
It was a great time to own a failing motel. The government was paying 140 percent of market value. No appraisal, no inspection, no contingency.
Who loathes Newsom??
🤚
Not enough voters😮💨
It's not shocking, it's theft.
They have that money in their bank accounts.
Wait so 24 billion for the homeless went missing, but they don't have the funding??????????
No, all the politicians and corrupted government each took a slice of the pie while the homeless got crumbs.
Doesn't make no sense
They people in charge steal them money 😠
You get what you vote for
The head of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has an annual salary of $ 450,000
With no results? How do they merit this amount?
@@tuttifrutti2642 Welcome to current California!
I heard it mostly salary.
And this director is an ELDERLY BLACK SINGLE MOM?
@@markkoval4251 I’m not sure that has anything to do with this
Homelessness is bad out here!
Does this surprise ANYONE? So where did that half billion dollars of taxpayer money GO?😂
TAKE A BIG GUESS?? CLUE ONE THE BIG SHOTS THAT ARE PROMISING NEW PROMISES FOR THE DAME THING THEY PROMISED 4 YEARS AGO. HIKING PRICES TAXES AND DOING NOTHING. 😂😂😂😂 CLEARLY WE NEED TO LEADERSHIP THAT IS GOING TO DO SOMETHING. VOTE VOTE VOTE PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP! 👍❤🎉
For the corrupted people to buy their own vacation island 🏝.
I thought it was to purchase these vacant buildings, and send deposits to the construction companies.
I would guess gold, stocks, bonds, and real estate
I love how everyone is so shocked about this.
This has been a known fact for at least the past three years.
They do not want help.
They want to do drugs and steal without having any rules.
Many people are sHoCked about Diddy even though all the clues were there for YEARS smh
Some just want to keep their pets. Thats an issue.
Narrow minded fool.
That and the people who actually want help can’t get it. I had a friend who’s been homeless a few times and when they tried to get a place to stay they turned her away because she was in good enough shape to make it on her own. Or they said she had to give her little dog up to get help. She didn’t want to give up her dog and she was driven enough she was trying to get a job and had applied for food stamps and other assistance that she didn’t need help.
The people who don’t want help need mental facilities and drug addiction assistance. Then the people who need help aren’t getting it because they are trying. These places are doing this just to embezzle the money and not help the people who actually want help.
Cognitive dissonance at its finest here. You completely missed the point. Your government and their cronies took the money. This is not the fault of the poor as you would so want it to be, it’s the rich that are at fault here.
How come I didn't know about this???? I was homeless in Los Angeles for two years and never heard about this
It's part of the plan.
The homeless should just break the locks and go in!
It’s not a complex issue, it is sheer incompetence
So where is the Money?????💰
Corruption brought a nice island 🏝 and called it home to trafficking and enslaved children.
Corruption
It’s in the local and state politicians pockets.
It’s with anyone but the people who need it.
🎉 only a small portion may be stolen. The vast majority goes to creating good middle class jobs. People, let's have perspectives.
Keeping them vacant for the Olympics
So they can....
@@d.fenestrator9529 rent them to the people who come to see the Olympics mr genius
Keeping them vacant for the PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION Olympics!.........😂!
Prop 36 people! Gotta vote
CORRUPTION All the money wasted all the handouts to County City Government is Outrageous
"We didn't see any construction workers."
Stole money from the state.
Money is already gone..
FBI needs to investigate.
FBI ? FBI ITSELF NEEDS INVESTIGATING.
People are "languishing" on the streets because they don't want to abide by anybody's rules but their own. Yes, it's just that simple.
Exactly
L bozo
Exactly…how stupid arewe
One of the hardest rules is they must leave their pets behind/give them up. Their pets are their best friends and help them cope. That's an untold part of the story.
@@b_uppy Very true. That's something I wish they would change.
This is shocking…what the hell is going on? Every taxpayer should demand accountability from the responsible people or the organizations. This is outrages. More than HALF A BILLION spent and buildings still vacant and homeless people still on the streets. Oh my goodness! people work so hard for every penny of their paycheck and here the tax money is wasted like it’s nobody’s business. Very very disappointed.
🗣️CHECK THEIR POCKETS!
Can't do drugs in these rooms, security does a decent screening. Most of these people in La and oc, most not all, would prefer to stay high on drugs and on the streets. Cali needs to get tough on crime. Vote red.
Can't have pets is the bigger deal. They must leave there best friends elsewhere.
They never report the bigger picture...
And need to vote MAGA.
Wrong. The people hired to do security are doing illegal drugs, alcohol, and sleeping on their job. Saw it with my own eyes.
I'm not voting for low wage loving, coddling the rich, and ancestral inclinations enabling Republicans..
Not voting Republican simply because conservatives are absolutely Intolerable.
Disgusting corruption as usual.
That is why you should vote Gavin OUT!!!
Alot of people make alot of money working at "non profits". Lots of salaries paid and expenses charged so that there is not a profit at the end of a year. Please interview the mayor and city council.
So tired of my tax money being spent on taking care of those who don't give a fuck.
Corruption at its finest.
Another Newsom boondoggle….
Homelessness non-profit organizations are very profitable to the organizers; everybody else still on the streets.
Why is it somebody who works for the homeless NGOs gets paid a 6 figure salary to do it in California? CMN MAN
"The developer spent the money on luxury goods????'
They should be ashamed of themselves but of course they aren't. Before my grandmother's construction worker died, he confessed to her that he was pocketing a lot of the money he was suppose to use for good construction material. He used the cheapest and pocketed the money. Disguting!!!! As a result over the years money was shelled out the do it right. 🤬🤬
It's called the "homeless industrial complex."
Many have pets and are told they cant bring them or have rules they don’t want to follow for the ones that rejected it.
You also have a lot of theft there. You earn money from a day job and its often gone by morning.
@@b_uppyDay Job? You mean shoplifting and selling meth?
I used to live in Los Angeles twenty two (22) years ago. I saw homeless people, but now it got worse. The State needs to be Republican again. If the State of California, continues to be a Democratic State the homeless population will get worse.
So what did you learn L.A. County?
I was called all sort of names when I mentioned that the money burning strategy is a front for laundering and embezzlement. I am not a genius, just someone that can equate prop 47 spectacular failure to this in LA and SF county.
Thank you for this reporting.
homeless industrial complex.
And as soon as someone holds them accountable they'll be filing bankruptcy and disappear.
THANKS FOR STEALING FROM US
Corruption.
Really appreciate these two reporters doing this work. where did the money go...I wonder....There needs to be accountability for every dollar of federal money and where it went.
must be nice to live rent free, sadly the homeless want to remain free without rules and have available drugs and booze anytime.
Honestly some want to keep their pets, and homeless shelters are bad places if you are honest, too. They steal the money fellow homeless people have. The simpler, cheaper solution of liveable sheds within gated communities with kitchens, bathrooms and laundry facilities counseling and medical facilities solves a lot of that.
Put the sheds on wheels and if the people get jobs outside of the community they can take their portable shed with them and reduce the worries of theft.
Crooked LA
LA County leaders need to resign then.
What a surprise! Not You probably need to checkout the pockets of all the local and state politicians to see where all that money went.
Excellent reporting
That’s insane.
Hand over control of the project to the military. The pentagon can call it a training exercise.
I've been homeless since the pandemic and begging for help while all of this housing remains EMPTY??? 😮
It’s so shocking.
Ship them some people
Wasting taxpayer money….shocker 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣California = 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
They stay close to were they can steal
Unless I'm missing something, it seems like they need an outreach program or some other mechanism for hooking up the homeless people with all those empty units. Why has that not happened before now?
They are homeless, not roomless. They need homes, not rooms.
They don’t need houses, they need rehab
The vast majority of the 'homeless' are on the streets by choice... not circumstance... many prefer drugs, crime, and mayhem...
Many of us already knew where the money went and who benefited from it, definitely not the homeless or the communities.
Please don't vote for any more these bills or measures until everyone involved is held accountable.
Did she check if these abandoned places where operating? They were closed and fenced in. We had hotels that lost the funding when the pandemic ended and look like the buildings she is filming. How did she get 70% empty when she does not have a list of properties or numbers of rooms? This article left me with more questions than answers. When she mentioned Ventura, well, the federal government stopped funding the shelters here when the pandemic ended.
If this story bothers you, vote Republican.
Yup.
Some monkey brain will find a way to convince himself not to. Liberals have major egos
So republican politicians don't steal and embezzle funds? Hate to break it to you, a politician is a politician. Just remember, in the past 40 years both parties share the same amount of time at the governor's seat in California
They won’t they will still vote democratic…. They love the crumbs they can get…..
@@jonathanhawes youtube keeps deleting comments. That's legitimately big brother
Irresponsible and corrupt
To be fair, homeless administrators' lives matter too. Many are degree holders and these good jobs are meant to compensate them for their hard work earning these degrees.
Homeless Industrial Complex is very lucrative for the well-connected.
The homeless are being offered shelters instead of rooms. The homeless would say yes to hotel rooms. They don't want disgusting shelter beds. The hotels need to be near services and jobs.
Doesn't sound like anyone is in charge of this program therefore, money will just disappear.
I hope these homes are in Beverly Hills, Brentwood, and Downtown L.A. and next to every city hall in L A. County !
I'm homeless, I want a room. Who do I call
Of course...
I really believe not one more cent should be given to homeless people. It is a boondoggle. There needs to be complete and total weekly oversight with one central PRIVATE CORPORATE overseer. If those who have been given funds do not cooperate, they get sued and no more money given to them. The private corporation tasked with this oversight should be given incentives to weed out and stop this homeless housing grifting b. s.
Why the hell did people vote for Bass? We could have had a competent mayor.
lets make it simple. there were 100 rooms for the homeless and only about 30 of those rooms are filled. thats wild.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Because the homeless will not abide by the rules set forth to get shelter…you know like giving up drugs and alcohol
Money laundering! Way to go CA!
It was always only about the money. Everybody involved in those housing units made a ton of money. They couldn’t care less what happens after that.
“A room? No thanks, if it’s all the same to you I’ll stay here on the beach in my tent doing drugs with my friends. Thanks taxpayers!”
Most of the homeless are out of sight but honourable They're working but either couch surfing, living out of their vehicles, or living 20 to a studio apartment. Some just need to keep their pet but face barriers at shelters because of that..
The homelessness industrial complex want you to blame the homeless instead of the HIC...
Wow ! Someone took the cash ! Most definitely!
50,000? More like that x 3.5-4
Yet I get thrown through the revolving doors of the judicial system? Deprived of housing for defending myself against bullying? I'm homeless, have struggled with addiction, yet I actually WANT to live a normal happy life, whatever that means, so I've actually been working on changing the things within MYSELF, and here I am repeatedly getting challenged against my past? Idk but all the stress and traumas and disappointments are what lead to drug use, it's one's way of avoiding the violence and depression
No American city or government really meant for anyone like me to go indoors. You have invested in buildings and paid the owners. Americans like that I'm still outside. It's not impossible to house everyone. You wouldn't.
LA mayor Karen Bass says she can solve the homeless problem if shes allowed to throw enough taxpayer money at it!
Which is funny Eric Garshitty tried, abiet not very hard, to fix the homeless problem by throwing money at the problem too with no results except wasted taxpayer dollars. And here we are same people voting for the same type of officials blowing smoke up voters asses about solving/fixing/reducing to homeless issue 🤔. Hmmmm I guess out taxpayer money isn't paying these politicians enough money to figure out better solutions.
Start asking the ground breaking crew with shovels where the money is. They are smiling!
Alot of people make alot of money working at "non profits". Lots of salaries paid and expenses charged so that there is not a profit at the end of a year.
Get the crooked politicians out of their huge homes and let them live like I'm forced to. I'm afraid every night and my food and stove keep getting stolen, I have to spend more money to replace everything I had. I need real help now
Bass Buah, u goin prison Buah
That's because they can't smoke crack there
Obviously
There's an INFORMATION GAP. The people that need these places don't have a place to find this information.
You call a place and tell you there's a "long waiting list". So you become discouraged and give up looking.
I know because I'm on the edge of homelessness and don't know where to go with all my stuff. 😢
Correct every stupid rental has a year or more long waiting list !
Call the city and be forceful.
The have a department for affordable housing!!!
The inmates are running the asylum.
I deal with homeless! They don’t want to follow housing rules…..no drugs…..no alcohol….no violence…..etc! That why!
Be in their shoe, how many times per day you like to keep packing and moving. It exhausting moving and moving and moving and moving because all places kicked them out ASAP.
@@rollinia7770
And they left out that they disallow pets. And that theft is rampant in the shelters. You have a little money/personal items from your day job and it's gone cone the morning. Lots of working homeless.
The original commentor likes to keep that out...
take the money and run to New Zealand...they don't extradite to the US...