California cannot meaningfully track where $20 billion of homeless funding went, report says
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- A scathing new report claims California can not meaningfully track or measure the results of the $20 billion it spent on the homelessness crisis. Joy Benedict reports.
Create a homeless problem > let it get out of control > ask for funding > corruption happens > money disappears.
Got rich baby
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat....
Diabolically genius.
It went to fund cushy "work from home" jobs.
Check Eric Garcetti/Gavin Newsom pockets
2 billion went missing from prop HH funding in LA county. Missing.
YES
You left out the key player in SF, there is not one funding bill that does not make that one rich. Because they are also in boards they have control like say possibly media,which seems to be blackout on that one's actions.They have managed to get millions from dept of interior,PPP loans and of course inside trading market manipulations.But yet nothing about these things just amazing
Keeping the "Boi" in Brylcream
Esta loco!
Not surprised. Homelessness is BIG business for politicians and their friends.
Blame the voters. They elect the politicians.
@@Fedgery007Blame the system that allows these crooks to be voted in. The people are sheeple.. What does their vote matter?! Don't be ignorant. The problem is with capitalism. SMH.
Activists and advocates also
What are they even buying with that much money?
China. They give it to China @@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307
It’s how government launders money. Which is why it’s not accounted for. If it was taxpayers doing this, then they’d be in jail by now.
for every $100 , $2 to homeless $98 to politician , wake up
Ok I'm awake, now what? 😂
Also, imagine the fearful receipt of a "scathing report".
@@The_Quaaludestop giving money to people you don't agree with
I live in a triple h measure apartment building they are real
More like 10 cents!
Why would they solve the homeless problem? It’s like asking the DEA to solve the drug problem. Solving your way out of your job.
That makes sense because of job security. Unfortunately government officials adopted the motto don't do your job too well or else you won't have a job next week
Brutal truth
Keep voting blue shitfornia hahahaha
Same with cancer, there is no money in a cure.
Check with the Governor’s friends.
In the pockets of Californias politicians?
I remember woeking with a girl who worked for LA Metro and she worked in accounting. She reported that books didn't add up. She got fired. That's here in LA, not Russia or China.
A lowly accountant trying to shed light on corruption. Ain’t gonna happen.
Yep they fire all the people that are good and tell the truth.
It took 5 years to figure this out? The public could have easily told you this.
Absurd, heartless comment. You personify the reason to rebel obviously.
@@LikeLikeLikeLikeLi Absurd? Nonsense.
He says the truth. We all suspected this. Problem getting worse.
Even coined "homeless industrial complex."
@@AlexanderZapataIndividual typical conservative know it all rhetoric. Just because you don’t have any fight doesn’t mean I don’t. You personify the reason why people rebel.
@@LikeLikeLikeLikeLi I do not understand what you mean by "rebel." Like in an uprising?
Like Marquis de Lafayette said. After whom the park in front of the white house is named? "Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties"
Tho conservatism, in terms of finances is sound. You suppose we throw money away to charlatans who falsely promise to solve problems?
@@AlexanderZapataIndividual Don't feed the troll.
I bet a billion dollars that very little of that ever got to any homeless people.
It probably spent on helping migrant or war
Typical of government.
Yup I did the math 2 billion would have ended homelessness in California for 325,000 people.
Especially if it's in that state of California where the governor is the number one problem or Joe Biden in the White House and the Hollywood Elite the woke crowd that runs it .@@Chicago48
Big money grabbed by political friends.
In the pockets of the politicians. . .and their "philanthropic companies"
What a mess.
Big thumbs up to Josh Hoover state assemblyman for requiring the audit that shows what we already knew as corrupt mismanagement of funds
This is TAX PAYER money!!! Let the government decide how to spend our money, what could go wrong....
And when they want more money to spend, give it to them with no debate.
@@enidankavon We keep voting for more and higher taxes, though.
It's the democratic party way.
THIEVES
@@David-Nord Exactly, just wait until CA imposes a rain water tax on its citizens. It's coming.
Homelessness = cash cow
Good. I don’t get you.
Just like the joke of animal sanctuaries.
These animals won't go we extinct anytime soon, but they have great salaries & perks.
If those animals don't tuck your heartstrings they're out of a job without your donations
@@LikeLikeLikeLikeLi watch California Insider to get a different perspective where various officials, from mayors to homeless shelter operators, teachers and businessmen, they tell their insider scoop in California. Many videos expalin in depth how selling homeless services as a business model (profitable) is different than fixing the problem. mental health, transitional housing and rehab access.
I really like that! Short and sweet!
@@Ronald-hk6fk u are the joke. U personify the reason why folks rebel and live in the street. F w/ the bull get the horns.
Sadly, this is not surprising. They don't want to solve the issues because the issues are too lucrative.
Politicians are getting rich 🤑 and raising taxes to keep people poor.
as a small business If I told the government I couldn't account for 200K they would be on me like stink on shit!
EXACTLY!!
Shocking. Who runs California 🤔
Look at who wrote the bill. It prob directed money to organisations in a way that money will get lost on the way. Benefiting associates that own these homeless organisations.
@@Sevenfold120 like Democrats 🤔
The liberals.
@@larryjsmith2767 Liberals are not to blame. Corruption knows no ideology.
@@Sevenfold120
CLEARLY LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS ARE 100% AT FAULT
We already try to recall Newsome. No much we can do any more. Democrats will just propose a new bill and give money to whoever is office. While the rest of us is stuck with ridiculous rent prices. New propose bill every year asking for money
It went to all the people you pay a $100,000 a year to stop homelessness why would they want to stop homelessness then they would be out of the job.
Corruption at its finest
So this was a massive waste of taxpayer money.
*Another
EVERYTHING they do with our money is a waste
Wait, what else did you think it was?! LOL
@@peanutbuttergirl6098 China will get what they paid for
It still is, every dollar is pocketed , no solution rendered.
And yet they came at me to pay $8.32 cents last year to pay an outstanding 2017 tax fee…ok.
I know right❤
That lady obviously thinks we're all fools.
Why doesn't the IRS audit our government? Seriously.What would happen if you reported on your taxes and didn't account for $20B missing?
Exactly. But we all know that will never happen. The wealthy and powerful are NEVER held accountable for their misdeeds, illegal activities, and shady shenanigans. The elite live on a completely different plane of existence--the one of ultimate CONTROL.
Irs is the government 😂
its like telling the mafia to play by the rules
the investigation would last forever, they would ask for billions more for funding the investigation and creating a new bureaucracy, at the end their finding would be inconclusive.
Oh, that's different!!!
Some of these politicians need to go to jail. I’m tired of seeing so much corruption and no arrests!!!
DemocRATs what would you expect 🤣
180k is a far cry from the actual number. There is another 100k that are categorically unhoused, living in cars, trailers, rv's, hiding from the count.
I know a dude in my building works for a homeless program and makes 300k/year. He goes to work like 2 days a week and spends the rest of the time playing World of Warcraft. I ask him all the time how his job is going and he just says "Good, I guess. We just keep hiring more people." Maybe I should go work for him?
Is this in California? I'm upset now lol
This is absolute bull crap
People who promised to help the homeless took the money and left 😂😂
shhhhhh!
Homeless industrial complex
Most of the homeless doesn't want the help. That's the problem!
What kind of help? They don't want a place to live? or they don't want a program, with so many rules that noone wants to live by. $25000/yr per homeless person. Yet no homes, just program fees, $1000-$1500/mo per person, 3-4 per room, strict rules, doesn't work, then just revolve back around to the program again. And it keeps going, and the $ keeps coming, again and again, and the homeless never got a home to live in, just a program. More housing, more homes, affordable, means less rent for people that make $ off of poor people paying them. Paying all they have, people that work hard everyday, to provide the comforts to people who don't work very hard. They work very crafty though. Not many would be willing to have more affordable housing, homes, apartments, etc. if it meant they couldn't charge the obscene amount rents they they are accustomed to. They just wouldn't trade it, they aren't going to be happy getting only $1000/ mo instead of $2000/ mo. Even if it is still profitable and they always still have the equity of the place. But see that only works if you want to sell your house and move into another house to live in. Then the $ doesn't really matter, because of the market rise and fall the same,they still sell their house and move into a comparable home, whether they sell for $250k and buy for 250k, or $500k and buy $500k. But when you want to make $, not a place for you to live, then it matters. If I want to make money off it, I don't want more supply of houses for people,ni want a shortage, I want hi demand more money, f### the poor and homeless, I want $. It's a terrible thing I have to raise the rent so much, no actually you love it. You love when there are 10 poor families that need a place to live, and you can raise it to the highest level, makebas much as you can, while they are busting their a$$ everyday to for your packages, and conveniences life. All the work is done by poor. The bs is done by the wealthy. Whose jobs are generally to collect all the $ the hard everyday workers earn. Right back to the owners who make the profits. Cycle cycle cycle. We are blessed to live in the US, opportunity, food, clothing, shelter for the most part, one of the best countries in the world, @@andyperez9168
@@andyperez9168but politicians keep the help
Let me guess where it all went, corrupt politicians.
Experience Massachusetts...a liberal hell hole. It's flooded with illegal things that make more a month than my retirement check
Blue no matter who
Blame the voters. They elect the politicians.
Why is this not front page news. BILLIONS
When my husband had a sudden accident 2 years ago and is now paralysed and has stage 4 heart failure we lost everything. Home, business, belongings. We have a 10 and 8 year old. We ended up homeless and in father joes shelter. After 3 months we were incorrectly housed into an updtairs unit that my husband couldn't access. Back at the shelter we learned my son caught COVID and the shelter staff locked us out while at the dt refused to allow me to collect my belongings. We then lived in our van and the kids at my mother in laws (she lived up a flight of stairs) for a week. We were able to go to a hotel then we're accepted into salvation army for if hope.
One month in and the sprinkler broke and flooded the unit ruining the last of anything we owed. The clothes we had just replaced and got for back to school we caught in fire when the staff at door of hope attempts to dry them without washing. The soaked clothes, shoes, stuffed animals, blankets were to heavy and the whole laundry room caught fire. We were fast asleep and learned of the fire in the morning.
Salvation army refused to replace saying they had no insurance.
Fast fwd we are 6months into our inner year stay and i learn the the case manager had me as inactive for the housing referral program the entire time. After filling a grievance the director and the head director assured me they fixed my program. Only to find out i was inactive 4 more times over the last 6; months. I've contacted directors, other homeless agencies, hiding authority, housing commission, mayor, city counsel, Dept of Justice, health and human services, lawyers, health care workers, news featured us , i have some to regional task force, went to homeless conferences, mayors luncheons. Connected osbudsmen, just to be told that "yes they can see all the mistakes, they agree ive been treated wrong, discriminated on, and they can't help me they will pray for me though".
No one can tell me who's to be held accountable for the mistakes.
No one will help correct the mistake.
I was evicted from salvation army. They outright refused to give my children the Christmas gifts from the angel tree . They refused me case management for 6 months during the eviction. But also refused to remove themselves so i could be case managed elsewhere
They never provided a single resource. I lost 4 referrals in that year because they kept returning my mail to sender. Then they would say " sorry human error"
Im currently in a hotel unaware if what my next move is because the new case manger who btw is wonderful, can't get the ces/rtfoh to let the grudge go and house my family. I am the longest standing family in the ces program. I have homeless, children, disabled, medicaly terminal 24 hour care dependent husband but somehow rtfoh. Doesn't consider my family high priority. And won't allow my case manager to house me in an open available unit that they currently have available.
The charities/churches are held to no accountability, they don't have to follow ada, they don't have to share my account notes with the other homeless agencies. They don't care where u go or offer any type of resources. I have emails, texts, videos, screenshots of missed referrals, witnesses responses from every entity i listed to prove everything i say.
I have never been on any public assistance until my husband injury. My kids are watching their father die all while losing their toys, their home, their stability and will have to eventually deal with the passing of their father. God forbid i don't find a way I'll end up outside and cps with take my kids my husband will have to go to nursing and I'll be jailed for not sheltering even though the shelter kicked us out.i don't use drugs, i was not a prostitute I'm not trans i don't have aids I'm a us citizen. Who paid taxes 28 years. However I'm not a high enough priority to be blessed with an affordable housing unit I'm my home town. No one is held accountable. They do what every they want and suffer no reprecussions. They need to audit case managers, open a 3rd party company/concern line, make them account for the donations and government grants, make clients review the experience. Require transparency. This is horrible!! Sad!! And with all the money they have received in the last 2 years, they could have bought every single family a 3 befroom home... Billions of dollars and thousands of people yet it's only getting worse!?!? Make it make scene.
Maybe try telling the local news station or paper.
Check the pockets of the politicians
Democrats*
Ask Newsom Garcetti and Bass where is the money
There are some very rich democrat politicians in California!!
all you need to do is look at their expensive homes.... cars....
Yeah, I'd like to know where it went too, since my three children and I are still residing in our non working vehicle and praying for a miracle. Shame on you Karen Bass and Gavin Newsome. Let's have some accountability for the billions that are MIA 🇺🇲💯🤷🏽♀️
Politicians aren’t responsible for why you fail to provide for your children. Stop blaming them and take a look at yourself
I have been there as a solo adult I cannot imagine how hard it is with kids. Blessings to you and yours. I pray a stable, safe place to live is coming to your family very soon. ❤
WTF! 20 billion spent on God knows what. We should all be outraged by this. What incompetent accountant(s) was keeping track of the spending?
True but Democrats will only vote for people who are useless.
Who said anyone “keeps track” of this spending?
Hey now, Governor Newsom’s hair looks great! Keep California blue… or else we riot!
Democrats are doing such a great job 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿
i bet a Billion nobody goes to prison
Do they ever?
It’s only a crime if you’re poor
This is about poor v rich
Hell, they will ask for more money next year.
@@scottjohnson7780 Yep. And steal that too.
We know where the money went. In the politician's pockets.
CEO salaries, expense accounts, private jets, 5 star hotel stays, wardrobe expenses. Remember when nuns did this work and the salaries were just enough to survive and people were well cared for?
This is precisely why our government doesn't want to actually *solve* this problem. Their true goal is to *point* to this problem and raise taxes.
Yes
20 Billion Dollars, and they don’t know how it was spent or whether any of their programs are working? Incredible.
You know what you can track? State mental health hopitials, mental and drug court expenses. Shelter expenses. Emergency housing expenses. Drug rehab expenses. UBI expenses. The legal expenses the state incurs suing local governments who prevent new building permits. Tracking all of that is EASY.
Neither can you track how the $1T is missing from the pentagon , TWICE!
Ask these CEOs like LA city housing and other organizations how much their salary is? They are granted tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, and first thing they do is raise their salaries. $250,000 a tear salary off of grants. Wake up, they are always defending the billions spent on the homeless industrial complex. It's a business.
Nov 2022 CA was bragging about having a 100 billion surplus, and in Feb of 2023 they said they have a 20 billion deficient, not being able to explain where the 120 Billion went.
Bidenomics!
It's the hidden cost of supporting millions of illegals. They just can't admit it so its whoops lost 120 billion...😮😮😮
Did you pay attention to the video or learn what the word deficient is ?They never said there was a 20 billion deficient, they said 20 billion is missing. That means 100 billion surplus, missing 20 billion is still 80 billion surplus in your case. But however the deficient is actually closer to 60 billion according to most recent report by the state's analyst office
They cant track they cant track 20b but they can track what everyone owes in taxes 😂😂😂😂😂.its just corruption arrest those in charge
You will NEVER fix the homeless problem in CA or this country for that matter.....all those advocates would be out of a job, and they won't let that happen. 😮
In college, I wrote a report about homelessness in the US and focused my attention on NYC and LA. It was not shocking to find that the NY state comptroller found that millions of homeless funds were used for government worker parties and what the NY Post called a "booze cruise." LA also raises taxes each year for projects, one for homelessness of course (to look like good samaritans). It should be logical to notice that higher taxes/more homeless funding is not leading to less homelessness, in fact, LA and NYC have more homeless than ever before. And why? Because tax dollars DON'T GO WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO.
You should look into what is going on at these government owned homeless hotels. One word: children. A certain type of person doesn’t have to register if they’re homeless.
And the people still voting for the same thing.
The exact same thing will happen if they ever get to pass carbon taxes.
Not knowing where money goes seems to be common among communities lately.
And the worst part is that ignorant voters passed proposition 1 which allows the state government to waste more taxpayers money. Everyone I know who read the proposition voted against it! People I've found who voted for it admit that they didn't read it!
FACTS!
Thanks for mentioning this, it's so upsetting.
Why is anyone surprised? Lots of people are making lots of $$$ money.
How can they not track the money, sounds like fraud. Are they handing out the money in cash?
Those so-called "non-profit" organizations you see everywhere are actually making TONS of profits! But, it's just reported differently to keep their tax exempt status. The CEO's and other people at the top of those organizations are pulling in six figure salaries, plus yearly bonuses! About 75% of the money allocated for the homeless goes towards non-profit salaries and organizational costs!
How can you not track it when virtually every aspect of it is electronic?
The money just lined some pockets and gave most people a kushy lifestyles. No one in need actually used the money.
Exactly! 💯
San Francisco spends $90K per year per homeless person. You would think you should just pay rent for them and that would solve the homeless problem. The problem is there is a lot of money to be made prolonging the problem.
Wow! 90 thousand a year spent on homelessness. I agree with you. Skip the administrators. Simply pay their rent. Very good idea.
Cost 90,000 to keep a bum in a tent ?
They could not only pay their rent but also supply their crack for that amount
can’t just give them a house, ffs most can’t manage thier lives look what’s happened when ya give free hotels… in la four hotels were destroyed in 4 days all the copper wire and pipes ripped out fires set in rooms places covered in feces fighting among each other drug dens for all thier friends cartels using gangs to throw the homeless out so they hide and along dope from inside or use the rooms to house thier sex trafficking victims….
Most Americans don't make 90k a year. This is so crazy!
Get Newsom out!
Sure they can, in the pockets of the local and state corrupt politicians!
It only costs 2 billion for 325,000 pallet homes which would end homelessness in California forever but you manage to misplace 20 billion? Would not be a single person sleeping on the street.
And did you hear, the money NOT misplaced was used to purchase real estate. From top to bottom it’s an entire scam.
Doesn't surprise me. How come it's only after the fact the money's gone that any audit is done. If you can't track the money in and out then it's a scam.
The CEO of L.A Family Housing says the homelessness is "a crisis that responds to resources" (asking for more money,) while her example of measurable reallocation of our tax dollars is buying 10 hotels for the homessless with 100 million dollars. 🤓
Sounds like someone committed fraud and needs a long prison term...
Actually they said that 80% of the expenses is on administrative and only 20% goes to the program. Why solve the homelessness .
20 Billion not 20 Thousand are are you FFFNNN kidding me Someone should be in Jail by now SMHO 😮😮
And the IRS comes after you if you're $10 short.
Democrat pockets like always
YES
yeah, because the other side of that coin is squeaky clean huh?
OMG really? do you have proof? what do you know? Something must be done! You better be right, I'm going to be so upset if it turns out it was the Republicans again.
@@o0GrayMatters0o Scientifically proven Conservatives are more moral than Progressives. You guys literally rigged the 2020 election and are using law fare to punish your opponent, because "muh Democracy"
Why are Republican insults ALWAYS so ironic.
I can tell you where it went! People in charge of spending it, gave the contracts to their friends and relatives. There is no oversite on the vendors. After the money exchanges hands, people get paid and that is all there is to it! Homelessness here is CA, especially in Los Angeles (where I live) is an industry now. It is only going to grow...... unfortunately.
Exactly! There hasn't been a big change at all. Corruption always wins.
Why would the person leading an organization advocating for the homeless be called a "CEO?" - doesn't that imply that the organization is a for profit organization? (I was Homeless in California bay area for a short time in 2o14 on a soul searching journey it was incredible then can't imagine what it is now...)
Who in “The Government” isn’t accounting for the money they were provided?
"Homelessness responds to resources".
What a broad, vague, weaselly statement.
Newsom proposition a tiny home costing over a million dollars each and word salading it to justify the amount.
I wonder where that cash would trickle down to. Been in building for 40 years. Does not cost that.
There was a guy who built tiny homes & Donated them on Private property a few years back. Newsom ordered them to be destroyed because he saw the opportunity for Him to make the money.
Easy fix. All council members another’s in charge of this money go to jail, now! Bond 20b. They will find it
the money went to the politician's rich corporate friends who own the construction projects for the homeless is my guess
Our politicians have found another way to launder money 💰
👍🏼 yup
Democrats *
It went straight into the pockets of the people working in that sector while those people do NOTHING to solve the issue.
"Working" ha ha
Stephanie Gamer makes 280k annually. That is the problem with LA.
This worked exactly as planned. They don't want the auditors tracked the money back to their own NGOs and NPOs.
total bs and fraud
From the State Office, “It’s only 20 billion”.
Just follow the money .. then you will discover who took that $20 Billion.
It went to building developers and politicians
Absurd comment Karen
they should audit the real estate developers who built all these tiny villages. How much did everything really cost?
This wasn’t our fear. We’ve know about this since the beginning! What happened to Newsomes plan to end homelessness in 10 years… that was in 2008!
And Biden wants the whole US to be like California! He literally said that! 😡
Well, he just needs a little bit more of your money.😠
@@scottjohnson7780 just keep voting blue and never question elections (when democrats win).
California politics 101, baby
Recall newsom. Oh that's right. He changed the laws so we can't do that now.
20 billion dollars would build a lot of small homes for he homeless. They sure do need to investigate this? Or no more funding!!!!
The person interviewed here makes close to $300,000 a year 10 people make close to a combined $1.2 million in salary alone. They’re grifters. Plain and simple.
They continue to raise taxes in California and create more programs for people who do not contribute or pay taxes. The government is wasting our money. Crime, drug use and homelessness run rampant and the cost of living is at an all time high.
It’s in Newsom’s bank account
It doesn't take a detective to see where the money went.
Yet county took 1300 from my taxes because of food stamps overpayment, why is the same not required over a 2 billion dollar venture it needs to be repaid back by the county not it's citizens🎉
All of them, grifters are to blame. Everyone that sought great spending should be held accountable.
But everyone will feign ignorance with their pockets loaded.
Obviously absurd conservative know it all rhetoric. I don’t get you. Do you think no one is going to rebel against you?
@@LikeLikeLikeLikeLi Rebel : a person who rises in opposition or armed resistance against an established government or ruler.
I am no ruler. How can people rebel against me?
So you are talking to the truth I speak eh?
A veiled threat?
If you can’t account for where our taxpayer money went, then you have miss-used our funds. We should all be suing the state of California for our taxes back for the last 8 years!
I was a homeless student in California. I moved to Nevada 3 years ago. No longer homeless I got money saved, I own shares in the stock market, and I got fat. I need to kick back on the food.
I’m sure the money will come up as accounted for. Our politicians don’t cheat 🙄🙄🙄🙄😆😂🤣🤣😂
Reminds me of Rumsfeld telling us $2.3 trillion cannot be meaningfully tracked, on Sept. 10, 2001.
Accounting records exploded the next day, so did the only set of backup accounting records, in building #7.
Really just a coincidence those missing trillions became untraceable the next day, rite?
Everyone stop paying income tax. And businesses stop charging sales tax at this point.
Did anyone check Newsom's pockets?
The state of California is in the power to the people, the people need to unite and do local duties to check and balance local government !!
they need to investigate this and charge people with theft
Sick! I bet it’s in the their pockets instead of the homeless
I wonder why they never hire an independent auditor that audits the state budget if it's fraud or not