Everyone working for Karen Bass is wearing Rolex, LV bags, driving expensive luxury cars.....imagine that!!!

Homeless industrial complex. Pockets of the mayor's friends

straight to their pockets

non-profits only need to apply 5% of funds toward efforts to reduce homelessness. 95% of funds go to "managing" organization, by law.

ITS GOING TO ALL THE ILLEGALS FJB

I'm so stumped why Californians keep voting these people into office. Why???

They need mental institutions because some of those people are so far gone, and that's the real truth no one wants to accept.

Non-profit my a$$.

Its most definitely not going to the homeless

Ask Karen Bass, audit her bank accounts, check her closet for boxes of cash!!!!

Drawing More Homeless To Los Angeles and of course waste and fraud.

"Inside Safe" has permanently housed only 440 people, less than 1% of LA's homeless, after spending $100,000,000s on the program, 70% of that money is going into the pockets of organizations run by the Mayor's friends

Democrat political pockets?

it's going to the pockets of politicians and israel

Into the pockets and luxury expenses of these "charitable organizations".

In the pockets of politicians !

Talking a drug addict to stop using it is the most ridiculous idea ever. Only an idiot would propose that and morons would say “ yes, thats good idea!” Intervention is necessary . Drug addiction takes over peoples will to get better therefor the are dying right and left on the streets ..

It’s always “mental illness or drug addiction” it’s never just the record high rent prices. Remember average monthly rent for an apartment in 1980s was $200

To politician's non profits friends or family members

My sister-in-laws non-profit was recently taken over by a board of directors more interested in lining their pockets and making sure their friends financially benefit before the non-profit is dismantled. Unfortunately there is no protection for the organizations that help the homeless and the indigent from these people.

We wonder here too in Seattle.....where is the money going? Nothing has changed at all yet they are spending all the homeless money.

Yeah, school and daycares, but they don’t care about regular people who freaking work, ladies who get on the bus, storeowners. It’s a complete trainwreck.

Not to the homeless and y’all keep giving the votes for your tax dollars to go more up

None of that money has gone towards the homeless. It's been years and nothing has changed. Fentanyl is a problem but why hasn't any houses been built?

Putting up small, 10x10 structures on empty lots with a common area restroom/showers and a 24 hr security guard would not take very long to make happen. Other communities have done this. Then each homeless person is given a choice: choose this housing along with accountability and mental health/ drug rehab services or become incarcerated. People that are mentally too far gone will need to be safely and humanely housed in a mental health facility. We need to start implementing these things now, not in the future.

A very good question! The organizations need to be audited THOROUGHLY.

Not to the homeless. It's dog eat dog out there!

Every nonprofit that has ever existed has been profitable for those who control it.

If i was homeless, fentynal sounds like a good way to go. I've been homeless. Could never do it again ❤

Not where it should.

Why don't you ask the fundraisers and politicians who have big homes and drive nice cars where the money is going? They bang the drum, telling you what you want to hear, but they are just like a corner lot used car salesman. I used to know a fundraiser. They're all the same.

I’m 17 & I wanna know where my tax money is going since the state thinks taking 1/2 of our paychecks for dumb taxes 🙄

Thats a question for Mayor Bass

Into homeless advocacy groups and pockets of LA politicians.

take an open area ( away from the cities) and build them an area with infrastructure and move them there. that gives them there own area to live in without affecting the rest of us.

In the corrupt hands pockets as usual..

To the war $ That is not our war

It’s going in the council pocket

didn't some employee at a company that got funds to help the homeless off the street guilty of embezzling 40 million to finance a luxury lifestyle for him and his model girlfriend

There is something called the welfare industrial complex or the poverty industrial complex. The money is going into the pockets of the non-profit and NGO executives. The problem will not be solved because there is so much money to be made prolonging and even exacerbating the problem. I do not donate to charity because I do not want to pay someone's high six figure salary and luxury lifestyle.

"activist" are some of the worst people in society.

It's going in Gavin newsom's pocket that's where the money is going😂

YES. Follow ALL of the money. Preferably a fine tooth comb of the last twenty years

Baren Kass has the money 💰

The fiends are falling out and everyone is suprised that the money towards the problem is being siphoned off.

Check the LA City Counsel and all them LA politician's pockets 😂😂😂

In the pockets of politicians

money is going to the workers working on the homeless problem

If city Planning Commissions had bothered to build low income housing over the last 30-40 years, we wouldn't be in this position in the first place, but NOBODY ever talks about that part... 🙄

I’d tell you where the money goes but I’d be going against youtube comment policy

Knock knock: NBC, Is that you?? Are you speaking truth? Wow… I don’t think we’ve ever met.

When the rich steal the money it's ok, when the poor steal money, things needs to change.

That 7 tons of trash that Karen Bass didn't clean up on the streets while the poor guy got bullied by the city for recycling the dirty trash of LA streets. Why don't those city's cites the homeless than the renter. The poor man deemed mental ill placed in 51/52 hold when the homeless can be mentally ill anywhere on the streets.

Should be talking about how the citizens that didn't vote for the legalization are causing lawsuits and discrimination

How about the money for the people that actually work and struggle to stay afloat?

And this is the guy advocating for em

Creating homeless!!

People are tired of being overbearing taxes for people to breed sin. Working education can tear down a person and with everything so high allowing people to hurt people has gotten way out of line and it's sick.

It’s going to the director of homeless services, coordinator of homeless services, homeless programs liaison officer, manager of mental health for homeless services, and on and on and on.

What's heartbreaking breaking and unknown to many is that many street homeless silently die completely alone, and their bodies get eaten by other homeless and stray animals.

Every family is affected by homelessness in LA. They are camping everywhere except in gated communities where the politicians live.

The Homeless Industrial Complex lives in LA where bureaucrats pull down 6 figure salaries and few if any homeless become housed.

They’re most definitely is an agenda beyond all of this rhetoric. I used to work for the VA for 10 years, specifically in an area called HPACT. Its sole purpose was devoted to housing, homeless veterans, which they did a lousy job at. The state of California had allocated to them over $700 million to address the homeless situation. It is beyond me to understand the rationale behind the methods they’re taking to so-call address this catastrophe. With all of these empty, unoccupied, warehouses strip malls, and even some hotels and motels across this whole state, are you telling me that they don’t have the power, to change some planning and zoning codes to accommodate what they claim they’re trying to address with an urgency? These people need to be audited from the mayor on down. This money is going somewhere and is definitely not to the homeless. They need to also initiate an intense mental health component to housing many of these people. a high percentage of them suffer from mental illness, and even if you house them there’s no guarantee That they will remain. I’m not an expert, but even with the little knowledge that I have regarding this issue, it’s totally infuriates me that the people who are supposed to have the answers no less than I do.

I guarantee you that money is being used for greed. Greedy people are pocketing that money and this needs to be investigated.

Into the pockets of those officials who claim to be trying to end homelessness.

When government spends; someone is getting rich.

The squandering of money for social services is a huge problem across the non profit sector as well.

into the pockets of those that need it the least. NBCLA is about 5 years late to this question, but better late than never i guess.

Why is no one policing these organizations?

That’s the same question I have for the money from the California lottery that was supposed to go toward schools

In politicians pockets

And if the city or any local government lost it, who pays for the damages?

Only a small fraction gos to the homeless and the rest goes to the thousands of government employees. It also goes to assist all the new immigrants

Thanks for your work. Please also make sure houseless small groups can stay together in Sec 8 apts. Many have formed their own little families, that look out for each other and don't want to be separated.

Of course it's going into politician's pockets to fund their fancy car's, Home's along with anything glamorous and upkeep, Fancy Restaurant's. I recall about 4-6 year's ago when the city of LA was talking about shutting down the school's because they did not according to them have the money to keep them open. They then wrote up a bill that would raise the taxes. When that did not go well for them they all of a sudden found fund's in the DWP account. It's not rocket science that they are NOT allocating the money where it needs to be... The money missing was intended to be used for the homeless population that we have seen triple just in the last two year's. Nobody can convince me that every dollar was spent for that said purpose considering that we all have witnessed the homeless population triple. If the money had been allocated for the actual purpose it was meant for we would be witnessing a decrease of people being homeless. City/County gov does it all of the time... They waste the tax dollars and or money meant for specific programs and such and when something comes up they all panic and try and recoup the money that they wasted by creating a new bill to raise taxes etc... It's never ending, And all of these people live the high life while the homeless and everyone else suffer.

Take a crazy wild guess ?? Rhymes with gruesome. Bet you'll never guess ?

Time for a MAJOR audit of the entire corrupt system

People at the top pocket the money. Lots of embezzlement going on.

If you cure the homeless problem.. people will be outta work

Forced addiction treatment or jail time. Only thing that works.

“ non profit” is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard. All these non profits need to be audited.

At this point, we are blindly throwing money at the problem. Prop 1 gonna bite us

They need a living wage job to pay for the crime of existing.

Lost opportunity to vote for Caruso. Bass is just lining the pockets of her cronies

The Mayor doing nothing, all the talk, yet they get into office and do nothing😮😮😮

To the government where else?

As long as homelessness is profitable for politicians, corporations, and religions, it will never go away.

Really should have gotten another point of view on that. Especially someone just representing homeless folks. This lawyer was too smooth.

It's going to some high paying jobs, mortgages, vacations, luxuries, car payments and comfortable living to the employees receiving this funding.

Check the pockets of politicians and those running charities

WE WILL NOT LAST LIKE THIS AS HUMANS

Non profits are booming right now. Most do nothing for the homeless. They pay themselves a good amount of money but do nothing in return. The sad part is that the state and city knows about this.

City should be throughly audited before Olympics

It's someone's raise, or in someone's pocket.

Agreed the government needs to step up help but people need to take responsibility for themselves too. Why do drugs when it’s a known fact that it destroys?

To the already wealthy people to keep their lavish lifestyles. The scapegoat is thse words drug's, and mental illness. That's not true at all. It's all due to human greed. Some humans do not deserve their wealth. And One day divine justice will be served.

All those metered parking spots can generate so much money in just one single day and still none of that money is going towards the homeless and other useful things 😑

I don't lawyers when millions of dollars are involved.

if they cant solve it after all these years, give the job to someone else.

Thank you god for this man this has gone on far too long!!!