Create a homeless problem > let it get out of control > ask for funding > corruption happens > money disappears.

Homelessness = cash cow

Not surprised. Homelessness is BIG business for politicians and their friends.

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.

Check Eric Garcetti/Gavin Newsom pockets

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.

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.

I bet a billion dollars that very little of that ever got to any homeless people.

for every $100 , $2 to homeless $98 to politician , wake up

Big thumbs up to Josh Hoover state assemblyman for requiring the audit that shows what we already knew as corrupt mismanagement of funds

And yet they came at me to pay $8.32 cents last year to pay an outstanding 2017 tax fee…ok.

It took 5 years to figure this out? The public could have easily told you this.

This is absolute bull crap People who promised to help the homeless took the money and left 😂😂

In the pockets of the politicians. . .and their "philanthropic companies" What a mess.

Politicians are getting rich 🤑 and raising taxes to keep people poor.

Shocking. Who runs California 🤔

as a small business If I told the government I couldn't account for 200K they would be on me like stink on shit!

Sadly, this is not surprising. They don't want to solve the issues because the issues are too lucrative.

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.

This is TAX PAYER money!!! Let the government decide how to spend our money, what could go wrong....

So this was a massive waste of taxpayer money.

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

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?

Corruption at its finest

Why is this not front page news. BILLIONS

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.

Some of these politicians need to go to jail. I’m tired of seeing so much corruption and no arrests!!!

Check the pockets of the politicians

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?

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.

i bet a Billion nobody goes to prison

Let me guess where it all went, corrupt politicians.

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?

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 🇺🇲💯🤷🏽‍♀️

Ask Newsom Garcetti and Bass where is the money

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.

We know where the money went. In the politician's pockets.

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.

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?

Democrat pockets like always

There are some very rich democrat politicians in California!!

They cant track they cant track 20b but they can track what everyone owes in taxes 😂😂😂😂😂.its just corruption arrest those in charge

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.

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. 😮

Neither can you track how the $1T is missing from the pentagon , TWICE!

20 Billion Dollars, and they don’t know how it was spent or whether any of their programs are working? Incredible.

To Nancy Pelosi!

How can you not track it when virtually every aspect of it is electronic?

Why is anyone surprised? Lots of people are making lots of $$$ money.

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.

Not knowing where money goes seems to be common among communities lately.

Sure they can, in the pockets of the local and state corrupt politicians!

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!

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!

20 Billion not 20 Thousand are are you FFFNNN kidding me Someone should be in Jail by now SMHO 😮😮

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. 🤓

the money went to the politician's rich corporate friends who own the construction projects for the homeless is my guess

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.

total bs and fraud

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🎉

Easy fix. All council members another’s in charge of this money go to jail, now! Bond 20b. They will find it

The money just lined some pockets and gave most people a kushy lifestyles. No one in need actually used the money.

How can they not track the money, sounds like fraud. Are they handing out the money in cash?

It doesn't take a detective to see where the money went.

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...)

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.

It went to building developers and politicians

Just follow the money .. then you will discover who took that $20 Billion.

Stephanie Gamer makes 280k annually. That is the problem with LA.

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.

It went straight into the pockets of the people working in that sector while those people do NOTHING to solve the issue.

Who in “The Government” isn’t accounting for the money they were provided?

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 .

"Homelessness responds to resources". What a broad, vague, weaselly statement.

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.

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 !!

Check their bank 🏦 accounts

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.

Every time one of these stories come up, I just think about every last time I’ve ever heard someone say they did something ridiculous like earned $50 on a day of DoorDash that they never returned a second day to, didn’t report, and got a fun little letter in the mail 4 years later about it. It’s honestly remarkable in a way.

Our politicians have found another way to launder money 💰

Newsom proposition a tiny home costing over a million dollars each and word salading it to justify the amount.

If you are a business trying telling the IRS you don't know where you spent 500 dollars .

Meanwhile high rents make more homeless people 🤪

It’s in Newsom’s bank account

And the IRS comes after you if you're $10 short.

If they don’t know where the money went, how can they see it wasn’t used irresponsibly?

The other issue that is glossed over, is that the government is using taxpayer funds to purchase real estate. Oh but they’re helping people, uh huh.

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.

In that case those CEO's and CFO's of the non profits and private/public collaborations need to be indicted for fraud,

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.

From the State Office, “It’s only 20 billion”.

Might as well given all the homeless people $1 million each

I wouldn't be surprised if some connected people are driving around in new, pricey cars well above their paygrade.

We're hopeless

CALIFORNIA IS HOPELESS, GOOD JOB LIBERALS 👹👹👹

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!