Here’s how much California spends on each homeless person A state audit found that California invested a staggering $24 billion over the past five fiscal years to address homelessness, a figure that underscores the state’s urgent effort to curb this intractable crisis. Yet, as this spending has increased, so has California’s homeless population. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, an estimated 181,000 people experienced homelessness in California in 2023 — an increase of 63,000 over the past ten years. In the 2021-22 fiscal year, when the homeless population was estimated to be 172,000, California spent $7.2 billion, which equated to nearly $42,000 per homeless individual. The spending includes housing and rental assistance, physical and mental health outreach, case management, and funds to purchase motels and other types of temporary housing.
An estimated 181,000 people experienced homelessness in California in 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – an increase of 63,000 over the past ten years. (California State Auditor) So, is this money well-spent? Many politicians and policy experts, including Governor Newsom, have doubts. In 2022, Newsom threatened to withhold $1 billion in funds from cities and counties, criticizing their homelessness plans as inadequate. This summer, he directed local governments to clear encampments or risk losing out on state funding next year. “I want to see results,” Newsom told reporters at a media event in Los Angeles. “I don’t want to read about them. I don’t want to see the data. I want to see it.” In a scathing report released in April, the state auditor said the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal IHC) has done a poor job accounting for homeless spending and tracking results. “Cal ICH has also not aligned its action plan to end homelessness with its statutory goals to collect financial information and ensure accountability and results,” the Auditor’s office said. “We believe that the State’s policymakers and the public need up‑to‑date information to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of billions of dollars in state spending.”
City sanitation workers clear an encampment as workers help bring unhoused people to interim housing, as part of an ‘Inside ... Governor Gavin Newsom along with Caltrans clean up an encampment site near Paxton Street and Remick Avenue in Los Angeles as the state’s Clean California initiative continues on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) A homeless person stands next to an encampment in Skid Row, downtown Los Angeles, California, on July 26, 2024. (Photo by ... L.A. Mayor Karen Bass declared homelessness a state of emergency and launched her $250 million Inside Safe program on her first day in office in December 2022. The initiative directs tens of millions of dollars annually toward programs that transition homeless individuals into temporary and eventually permanent housing. Bass has touted isolated success stories of removing encampments from the streets in areas including downtown L.A. and Hollywood. She expanded a directive to use publicly owned land to build more housing faster and remove RV encampments. A city website that tracks results says “more than 21,000 people” have been moved indoors since December 2022, and more than 5,000 have found permanent housing. As with statewide homeless programs and grants, however, critics question if the money is truly producing results. “Angelenos, unfortunately, are paying four times from their taxes at the federal level … to the state level, to the county level and city [on homelessness], L.A. City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez recently told KTLA 5 News. “We have to have an honest conversation about which areas are failing to produce the results for their constituencies. No one is trying to point fingers. We all represent the same people, and we have an obligation to make sure that we solve this crisis.” Serving ramen to the homeless isn’t good enough, L.A. city controller says In a wide-ranging survey on the issue, researchers at the University of California San Francisco interviewed nearly 3,200 unhoused individuals to learn how they ended up on the streets. Around 19% said they had become homeless after incarceration in prison or a prolonged jail stay, 49% from a housing situation where they didn’t have their name on a lease or mortgage, and 32% from a housing situation where they had their name on a lease or mortgage. In the six months before becoming homeless, their median household income was just $960 per month, the UCSF researchers found. https://ktla.com/news/california/heres-how-much-california-spends-on-each-homeless-person/#:~:text=In%20the%202021%2D22%20fiscal,nearly%20%2442%2C000%20per%20homeless%20individual.
然而可悲的是，随着支出的增加，加州的无家可归人口也在增加。 据美国住房和城市发展部估计，2023年加州将有18.1万人无家可归，比过去十年增加了6.3万人。 在2021-22财年，加州的无家可归者人数估计为17.2万人，州政府为此支出了72亿美元，相当于为每个无家可归者花费近4.2万美元。 这些支出包括：住房和租房援助、身心健康援助、个案管理以及购买汽车旅馆和其他类型临时住房的资金。
那么，这笔钱是否花得值？包括加州州长纽森（Gavin Newsom）在内的许多政治家和政策专家显然对此也都心存疑虑。 2022年，纽森威胁要从各市和县扣留10亿美元的资金，批评他们应对这一问题计划不充分。今年夏天，他指示地方政府清理无家可归营地，否则明年或将失去州政府的资助。
纽森在洛杉矶的一次媒体活动上对记者说：“我不想看数据，我不想读它们，我只希望看到结果。” 在4月发布的一份严厉的报告中，州审计员说，加州无家可归问题跨部门委员会（Cal IHC）在统计无家可归者支出和跟踪结果方面做得非常糟糕。
在南加州，2022年12月，洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯（Karen Bass）在其上任的第一天就宣布该城进入无家可归者紧急状态，并启动了2.5亿美元的 Inside Safe 项目，这是一个每年将数千万美元用于将无家可归者转移到临时住房和永久住房的项目。 然而，就像全加州范围内的其他无家可归者项目和拨款一样，批评者质疑这笔钱是否产生了实质性的效果。
洛杉矶市议员Monica Rodriguez对此表示：“不幸的是，洛杉矶人在无家可归问题上向州、县和市缴纳多达四倍的联邦税。我们代表着人民，有义务确保我们能帮助解决这场危机。”
在北加州，加州大学旧金山分校（University of California San Francisco）的研究人员对这个问题进行了广泛的调查，他们采访了近3200名无家可归者，以了解他们是如何沦落街头的。 约19%的受访者说，他们在监狱服刑或长期监禁后无家可归。49%的人表示，租约或抵押贷款单上没有自己的名字；32%的人表示，租约或抵押贷款上有他们的名字。
加州大学旧金山分校的研究人员发现，在这些人无家可归前的六个月里，他们的家庭月收入中位数仅为960美元。
A state audit found that California invested a staggering $24 billion over the past five fiscal years to address homelessness, a figure that underscores the state’s urgent effort to curb this intractable crisis.
Yet, as this spending has increased, so has California’s homeless population.
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, an estimated 181,000 people experienced homelessness in California in 2023 — an increase of 63,000 over the past ten years.
In the 2021-22 fiscal year, when the homeless population was estimated to be 172,000, California spent $7.2 billion, which equated to nearly $42,000 per homeless individual.
The spending includes housing and rental assistance, physical and mental health outreach, case management, and funds to purchase motels and other types of temporary housing.
An estimated 181,000 people experienced homelessness in California in 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – an increase of 63,000 over the past ten years. (California State Auditor)
So, is this money well-spent? Many politicians and policy experts, including Governor Newsom, have doubts.
In 2022, Newsom threatened to withhold $1 billion in funds from cities and counties, criticizing their homelessness plans as inadequate. This summer, he directed local governments to clear encampments or risk losing out on state funding next year.
“I want to see results,” Newsom told reporters at a media event in Los Angeles. “I don’t want to read about them. I don’t want to see the data. I want to see it.”
In a scathing report released in April, the state auditor said the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal IHC) has done a poor job accounting for homeless spending and tracking results.
“Cal ICH has also not aligned its action plan to end homelessness with its statutory goals to collect financial information and ensure accountability and results,” the Auditor’s office said. “We believe that the State’s policymakers and the public need up‑to‑date information to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of billions of dollars in state spending.”
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass declared homelessness a state of emergency and launched her $250 million Inside Safe program on her first day in office in December 2022. The initiative directs tens of millions of dollars annually toward programs that transition homeless individuals into temporary and eventually permanent housing.
Bass has touted isolated success stories of removing encampments from the streets in areas including downtown L.A. and Hollywood. She expanded a directive to use publicly owned land to build more housing faster and remove RV encampments.
A city website that tracks results says “more than 21,000 people” have been moved indoors since December 2022, and more than 5,000 have found permanent housing.
As with statewide homeless programs and grants, however, critics question if the money is truly producing results.
“Angelenos, unfortunately, are paying four times from their taxes at the federal level … to the state level, to the county level and city [on homelessness], L.A. City Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez recently told KTLA 5 News. “We have to have an honest conversation about which areas are failing to produce the results for their constituencies. No one is trying to point fingers. We all represent the same people, and we have an obligation to make sure that we solve this crisis.”
Serving ramen to the homeless isn’t good enough, L.A. city controller says
In a wide-ranging survey on the issue, researchers at the University of California San Francisco interviewed nearly 3,200 unhoused individuals to learn how they ended up on the streets.
Around 19% said they had become homeless after incarceration in prison or a prolonged jail stay, 49% from a housing situation where they didn’t have their name on a lease or mortgage, and 32% from a housing situation where they had their name on a lease or mortgage.
In the six months before becoming homeless, their median household income was just $960 per month, the UCSF researchers found.
https://ktla.com/news/california/heres-how-much-california-spends-on-each-homeless-person/#:~:text=In%20the%202021%2D22%20fiscal,nearly%20%2442%2C000%20per%20homeless%20individual.
美国的homeless问题就是毒品问题，这个root cause不提都是耍流氓。
金牌讲师最近的视频明确表示不要网友给他捐衣服，他穿不过来，每件衣服穿了就扔都穿不过来。大量捐款买了衣服，他们又不洗，直接扔了，还污染环境。
绝大多数的homeless需要的，是强制戒毒。吸毒者没有自制力，是需要帮助的人，他们需要政府强迫他们戒毒，他们没有自主决定的能力。换了我们也没有。
简单工作政府也有，也可以向企业征集一般无门槛工作，工资有达到最低就可以。这样也鼓励他们工作习惯后找更高工资的工作。
别嫌说话难听，大早上的被吓着了，以为是噩梦。这标题，非蠢即坏，大概就这样了
LZ必定是脑子不好
加州让这些工作的人拼命交税给这些homeless，好日无边
那不变成美国人眼里的强制劳动了，劳动出来的产品要不要抵制呢
强制戒毒？ 没用的。
禁毒品更难
我赞成杨Andrew 的UBI, 应该直接把钱发给homeless, 每月一千，省了中间的费用。
说强行收容精神病强行戒毒的，美国法律不允许，不是只有加州不行，全美都不行。可以从地方开始推动法律的修订。
还有人羡慕homeless? 发大财不容易，放弃工作和存款做homeless很容易啊，为什么没人那么做呢？
脑子不好
mark一下让大家看看某个群体shen me huo se
楼主一句话，美国多出多少百亿富豪啊，还一个个都是homeless😂
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移民律师告诉你走线来的秘密
看看上面的视频，上面的视频解释为啥加州来了这么多走线来的。
华人移民律师问走线来的人，走线辛苦吗？走线的人说一点不辛苦。
为啥过去四年来了2000多万非法移民，因为走线来的人说，他们一路上都有NGO（non government organization) 的人帮助他们，给他们提供水还有食物，给他们指路，还有安排交通，一路上就和春游一样。
这些NGO很多都是劳模的天主教的慈善组织，帮助劳模来美国。
这里面的玄机是，这些NGO从民主党政府拿大部分的经费，自己只需要筹集小部分的费用和用钱去雇人。
民主党自己不方便出面，就用着NGO作为他们的代理，用我们美国纳税人的钱引入海量的非法移民，想利用这些非法移民非法投票，达到他们一党专政的目的。
可怜的美国纳税人，被民主党背刺，然后被人卖了，还要说民主党好。。。。
中国政府分配工作？ 这谈扯的没边了
感觉是AI机器人发帖
所以这是为什么加州不会像很多人希望的那样，把流浪者抓起来送监狱里关着，因为关不起。
所以这是为什么加州不会像很多人希望的那样，把流浪者抓起来送监狱里关着，因为关不起。
加州现在警察是这样的，如果流浪汉在商家外面的街道睡觉，商家打电话叫警察，警察来了，一般只是给流浪汉一个verbal warning,
三个verbal warning之后才会给一个citation, 三个citation之后才会有可能arrest, 也就是说流浪汉理论上要至少九次被verbal warning之后才有可能被逮捕。
实际操作中，警察也不想管这些homeless, 也是不想多做paperwork, 所以流浪汉是爹爹不痛，姥姥不爱，警察也不愿意送他们去监狱，毕竟人家光脚的不怕穿鞋的
为资本创收，无家可归只是个工具，背后赚钱的是另一批。出这么豪横的价格，都只能继续过着街头的无家可归的日子，逻辑在哪里
犯人还经常自己吞咽异物，比如plastic spoon等等，这样犯人就会被送到医院去。犯人有的时候比如rose bowl球赛，他们就吞咽异物，被送到医院，医院病房里有电视，他们就可以看球赛了。
有的犯人每个星期吞咽一次异物，就是为了去医院放风。就这样，人家还雇佣律师要告监狱。
犯人在监狱里面也有各种人权，要求mattress, 免费配眼镜，半年免费洗一次牙齿，还有ACLU的FLYER墙上到处都是，说有事给ACLU打电话，ACLU给他们撑腰。
DOJ也经常有人去监狱检查。
监狱现在其实更加像一个大型医疗机构, 至少一半的犯人是有精神病的。需要大量的医生护士还有各种医务工作人员。监狱里面24小时有药房，药剂师，X-ray, X-ray技师，Lab, CLS (clinical lab scientist), Health IT, Health Information Management, Infection control, patient safety officer, patient privacy officer, 还有RN，医生，medical urgent care 24X7, 还有psychy urgent care 24X7, 还有各种专科，比如podiatry, dentist, cardiac, ortho, eye clinic,免费配眼镜，半年免费洗一次牙齿，还有ophthalmologist, 也有24小时的psychiatrist，psychologist， Psychologist最大的雇主就是监狱，起码一个监狱有上百个psychologist
监狱犯人24小时随时能看到医生（不管是medical还是psych)，随时能看病，比普通人的 医疗待遇强太多了。就这，DOJ还说，监狱对犯人不够好，医疗待遇没有跟上，所以监狱需要雇佣更多的医疗工作人员。
监狱归警察管，警察下面会有一个medical services bureau, 每年几十亿美金的预算，然后雇佣了很多各种医生护士药剂师还有各种医务工作人员
这个medical services bureau至少有几千人的规模，有工会，有pension。监狱因为工作环境不好，很多人进去以后，呆不了多久，就离开了。
监狱为了留住医疗工作人员，不惜给医生护士20%的retention bonus.就是只要留下工作，每个paycheck，多给20%的钱，就这样，还是有很多人离开。
比如招了50个人，六个月试用期结束的时候，可能最多十个人留下来了，其余的就走了。不然为啥要给20%的retention bonus.
监狱不是每个人都适合在那儿上班的，很多在那儿上班的都是第一代移民。第一代移民为了赚钱生存，不计较工作环境不好。
不是关不起，而是要养的人太多，没钱用在扩展监狱接收犯人。他们需要的是职位，没人想要工作，保持低数量的犯人可以继续拿到预算，又不需要辛苦的工作
是数学不好
是数学吧
我也发现了很多政府相关的工作都是亲友团。
监狱囚犯越多才能有更多的预算，养更多的工作人员，你说的这种只扩招狱卒，不增加犯人，是如何能做到的啊？
你有数据支持吗？请分享。
没人？那现在一堆堆的人效仿去讲师以前搭帐篷的地方重新搭新的帐篷？ 你是看不懂还是听不懂啊
美式要饭, 丁胖子讲师升级了，住进了免费公寓，看看他自己拍的视频
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是啊，免费公寓，免费吃喝，免费上学，免费医疗
美国社会主义，流浪汉丁胖子金牌讲师被分房了，还有免费医疗
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讲师终于也是油管认证的大主播了， 十几万的粉丝
講師終於拿到十萬訂閱銀牌，希望之後能拿到百萬訂閱金牌
日更每部影片5萬瀏覽每月收益至少1萬美金，而且吃住免費不愁吃不愁住，這樣的日子說真的財富自由了...難怪講師開始上英文課了
哈哈，讲师的牌子终于寄到手中了，这应该是全网第一个通过要饭获得10万以上订阅量的YouTuber了
讲师现在穿衣服都是穿一次就直接扔掉了，简直是牛得不要不要的了
讲师要饭视频在国内被封了，本来是笑话美帝的，结果越看越不对了，咋日子这么爽
将来如果贫困潦倒了，就去加州当HOMELESS好了。
能用到30%到HOMELESS身上就最高限额了。一般情况下，估计20%都没有。
美国慢慢烂一点怕啥，好象世界哪个国家不是在慢慢烂一样。
就怕美国一下变成纳粹国了，跑都来不及。。
挣W2的是新时代的slave
加州给每个 k12学生花费有这么多么？
你们有证据么？ 有证据去法庭告啊， 美国是法治社会！！！
今天还刷到了 那里有封？
这不是废话吗？毒品现在没有禁？毒品那么好禁的话早就没事了
他们成为homeless就是因为不愿意工作，或者不能工作，而且还不愿意接受救助。美国法律禁止限制人身自由，强制治疗，连家人也不行，所以无解。