The author from Reuters, Jeremy Schultz listed the top ten cities for the homeless as:
1. New York City - 78,676
2. Los Angeles -49,995
3. Seattle - 12,112
4. San Diego - 8,576
5. San Jose - 7,254
6. Washington D.C. - 6,904
7. San Francisco - 6,857
8. Phoenix - 6,298
9. Boston - 6,188
10. Las Vegas - 6,083
That is a total of 188,943 homeless in 10 cities, all of these cities off lots of feebies in the way of welfare, entitlements and have been run by Democratic leadership for at least 50 years.
38% of America's homeless live in these 10 cities, the numbers have increased every year as has the amount of money these cities spend on the homeless.
San Francisco spent over $1.3 billion on the homeless in 2019, that averages that is an average of $26,002 per person. Cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York have multiple charity groups, homeless advocacy groups and even have a Director who manages the homeless budgets. Yet every year the numbers go up!
Why? Could it be that Homelessness in an industry, one a bureaucracy can use to grow and benefit from?
Princeton University recently released a study that welfare and entitlements attract more immigrants and homeless, really? It took a study by Academia to figure out freebies attract those looking for them?
https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/map/#fn[]=1400&fn[]=2900&fn[]=6000&fn[]=9900&fn[]=13500
The Government through HUD began tracking Homelessness in 2007.
They show the top ten states as by percentage of these 544,398 as:
1. California - 24%
2. New York - 17%
3. Florida - 6%
4. Texas - 5%
5. Washington - 4%
6. Massachusetts - 4%
7. Oregon - 3%
8. Colorado - 2%
9. Illinois - 2%
10. Ohio - 2%
Those ten states have 69% (7B 3R) of the homeless (375,634).
Think about this: Over $30 billion a year is expended by State, Federal and Private agencies annually, which is over $55,107 per person. There are over 1,000 Charity groups involved in this venture.
Folks does anyone really think with this kind of money and amount of involvement, something better than what is happening today could not be achieved?
One idea, go to New Mexico, build a campus to house these 100,000 homeless, erect a Hospital to help clean them up from their various maladies and teach them skills as possible. Give each person a five year plan to make them viable.
What would this take to get people galvanized to stop the industry and really do something useful?
