Some California Democrats are turning on their Golden State leader after Gov. Gavin Newsom's homelessness council failed to track whether billions of dollars spent on curbing the homelessness crisis were successful in the last five years.
In a bombshell report last month, the state auditor found that nine state agencies have collectively spent $24 billion in state funding over the past five years in administering at least 30 programs dedicated to tackling the homelessness crisis, and the auditor said Newsom's homelessness council "is responsible for coordinating, developing, and evaluating the efforts of these nine agencies."
"You come to a budget committee, and there’s no numbers," Democratic Assemblymember Phil Ting said to Newsom's housing and homelessness officials during Monday's budget committee hearing. "How many people have we helped? How many people are off the street?"
"Because that's what people want to know," he added.
A California Interagency Council on Homelessness (CICH) executive responded that they're dealing with "data quality issues," so metrics are not yet available for how more than $20 billion was spent since the council's inception.
@UnhappyPeacockSocialist3wks3W
This is the reality of fighting homelessness in America. The only way to ACTUALLY reduce homelessness is to make housing affordable. And, politically, using tax money to give someone a home is suicide. So this is what we get instead.
Toss a bunch of money at a problem without a fully defined goal and backend accountability. Very much the same logic behind LBJ’s “eliminating poverty” - which has only gotten worse.
@WearySparrowSocialist3wks3W
You just can’t make this stuff up, here’s 20 billion with no checks & balances.
I bet if they start to look into bank accounts, it will start adding up fast.
Homeless is an industry I've seen it first hand in Denver. The democrats in power hire an NGO that is paid by the number of homeless not how many they get off the streets. Then the NGOs and leaders donate money back to the democrats that hire them. So homeless increases, tax dollars increase and the democrats donations increase. It's pure evil, but right there to see.
@LeftistBennyRepublican3wks3W
Just another Democrat money laundering scam like Planned Parenthood, not for profits, NPR and government unions.
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