The incompetence of California shines through on every issue facing the state. Once again, it's homelessness that sits in the California spotlight.
$24 billion on addressing homelessness. An audit examined how over half of that, $13.7 billion, was spent on five programs across the state. According to State Auditor Grant Parks, “This report concludes that the state must do more to assess the cost-effectiveness of its homelessness programs.” The report also said, “In the absence of this information, the State cannot determine whether these programs represent the best use of its funds.
In other words, California spent $13.7 billion on homelessness over the past five years with no idea if it was worth spending that money in the first place. In fact, according to the audit, the California Interagency Council on Homelessness has not been tracking whether spending on homeless programs has been effective. California, living up to the Democratic stereotype, has been blindly throwing billions of taxpayer dollars at the problem for years.
This has tracked California’s homeless spending over the last several years. The state’s desperation to solve the crisis led to it burning $100 million on a homeless project that the state attorney general is now12% of the country’s population, nearly 30% of the country’s homeless population, and a whopping 49% of the country’shomeless population.
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