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 @ISIDEWITHNews2024 PresidentialDemocratsCaliforniaDemocraticgavin newsomhomelessnesshousingThe Last Five YearsState Auditor•••1wk ago

California Cant Account For $24 Billion In Homeless Spending

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.

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 @B1ll0fRightsCodAmerican Solidarityfrom Illinois commented…1wk1W

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.

 @LeftistBennyRepublicanfrom Ohio agreed…1wk1W

Just another Democrat money laundering scam like Planned Parenthood, not for profits, NPR and government unions.

 @Pr0p0rtionalZoePeace and Freedom from Oregon commented…1wk1W

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.

 @WearySparrowSocialist from Louisiana agreed…1wk1W

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.

 @UnhappyPeacockSocialistfrom North Dakota commented…1wk1W

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.

 @ISIDEWITHasked…1wk1W

Can a government ever justify not tracking the effectiveness of its spending, especially in crises like homelessness?

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How would you personally measure the success of a program aimed at reducing homelessness?

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If you had the power, what would be your first step to ensure accountability in public spending on social issues like homelessness?

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Is it more important for government efforts to be transparent about spending or to focus solely on results, even if the details aren’t clear?

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How would you feel if you donated money to a cause but found out the organization couldn’t account for where the funds went?

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