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Another line they
cut into: Illegals get free public housing as impoverished Americans wait
Want some perspective on why so many blue sanctuary cities have so
many homeless encampments hovering around?
Try the reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free
public housing by the U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated,
unskilled, and largely unemployable. Those
are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier.
Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold
awaiting that housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these
emerging shantytowns are in blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants
- Orange County, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a
connection? At a minimum, it's worth looking at.
The Trump administration's Department of Housing and Urban
Development is finally trying to put a stop to it as 1.5 million illegals
prepare to enter the U.S. this year, and one can only wonder why they didn't do
it yesterday.
The plan would scrap Clinton-era regulations that allowed illegal
immigrants to sign up for assistance without having to disclose their status.
Under the new Trump rules, not only would the leaseholder using public housing
have to be an eligible U.S. person, but the government would verify all
applicants through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)
database, a federal system that’s used to weed illegal immigrants out of other
welfare programs.
Those already getting HUD assistance would have to go through a new verification,
though it would be over a period of time and wouldn’t all come at once.
“We’ve got our own people to house and need to take care of our
citizens,” an administration official told The Washington Times. “Because of
past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal aliens were able to live in free public
housing desperately needed by so many of our own citizens. As illegal aliens
attempt to swarm our borders, we’re sending the message that you can’t live off
of American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime.”
The Times notes that the rules are confusingly contradictary, and
some illegal immigrant families are getting full rides based on just one member
being born in the U.S. The pregnant caravaner
who calculatingly slipped across the U.S. in San Diego late last year, only to
have her baby the next day, now, along with her entire family, gets
that free ride on government housing. Plus lots
of cheesy news coverage about how
heartwarming it all is. That's a lot cheaper than any housing she's going to
find back in Tegucigalpa.
Migrants would be almost fools not to take the offering.
The problem of course is that Americans who paid into these
programs, and the subset who find themselves in dire circumstances, are in fact
being shut out.
The fill-the-pews Catholic archbishops may love to tout the
virtues of illegal immigrants and wave signs about getting 'justice"
for them, but the hard fact here is that these foreign nationals are
stealing from others as they take this housing benefit under legal
technicalities. That's not a good thing under anyone's theological law.
But hypocrisy is comfortable ground for the entire open borders lobby as
they shamelessly celebrate lawbreaking at the border, leaving the
impoverished of the U.S. out cold.
The Trump administration is trying to have this outrage fixed
by summer. But don't imagine it won't be without the open-borders lawsuits, the
media sob stories, the leftist judges, and the scolding clerics.
Los Angeles County Pays
Over a Billion in Welfare to Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
In 2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid
nearly $1.3 billion in welfare funds to illegal aliens and their families. That
figure amounts to 25 percent of the total spent on the county’s entire needy
population, according to Fox News .
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other
state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in
California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal immigrants
reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows illegal immigrant parents with
children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.
The welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from the Los
Angeles County Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare and food
stamp costs for the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in 2015, $2.9
billion in 2016.
The data also shows that during the first five months of 2017, more than
60,000 families received a total of $181 million.
Over 58,000 families received a total of $602 million in benefits in
2015 and more than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million in 2016.
Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior
fellow who studies poverty and illegal immigration , told Fox the costs represent “the tip of
the iceberg.”
“They get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector said. It can
cost the government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay for things
like education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.
In February of 2019, the Los Angeles city council signed a resolution
making it a sanctuary city. The resolution did not provide any new legal
protections to their immigrants, but instead solidified existing policies.
In October 2017, former California governor
Jerry Brown signed SB 54 into law. This bill made
California, in Brown’s own words, a “sanctuary state.” The Justice
Department filed a lawsuit against the State of California over the law. A
federal judge dismissed that suit in July. SB 54 took effect on Jan.
1, 2018.
According to Center for
Immigration Studies , “The new law
does many things: It forbids all localities from cooperating with ICE detainer
notices, it bars any law enforcement officer from participating in the
popular 287(g) program , and it prevents state and local police
from inquiring about individuals’ immigration status.”
Some counties in California have protested its implementation and joined
the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the state.
California’s campaign to provide public services to illegal immigrants
did not end with the exit of Jerry Brown. His successor, Gavin Newsom, is
just as focused as Brown in funding programs for illegal residents at the
expense of California taxpayers.
California’s budget earmarks millions of dollars annually to the One
California program, which provides free legal assistance to all aliens,
including those facing deportation, and makes California’s public universities
easier for illegal-alien students to attend.
According to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal
Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2017 report , for the estimated 12.5 million illegal
immigrants living in the country, the resulting cost is a $116
billion burden on the national economy and taxpayers each year, after
deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid by some of those illegal immigrants.
BLOG: MOST FIGURES PUT THE NUMBER OF
ILLEGALS IN THE U.S. AT ABOUT 40 MILLION. WHEN THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDED AMNESTY,
THEY ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY EFFECTIVELY
LEAVING MEXICO DESERTED.
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than 22 million
non-citizens now live in the United States.
That's California and illegal immigration. The state has
squandered hundreds of billions on illegal immigration in the 20 years since
I've been gone. They could use that money today. They desperately need it back
to pay for the hundred-billion-dollar job of upgrading and modernizing their
electric grid.
Census: Number of ‘majority Hispanic’ US counties doubles
by Paul Bedard
November 21, 2019
In the latest evidence of the effect Latin American
immigrants are having on the United States, the number of U.S. counties that
have turned majority Hispanic has doubled.
New Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center
found that from 2000 to 2018, the number of majority Hispanic counties jumped
from 34 to 69.
What’s more, the overall number of U.S. counties that turned
majority minority-based, mostly Hispanic or African American, also surged to
151 from 110 in 2000. Most of those counties are in Southern California and
along the Mexico-U.S. border.
“Overall, 69 counties were majority Hispanic in 2018, 72 were
majority black and 10 were majority American Indian or Alaska Native. The
majority American Indian or Alaska Native counties are unique in that most have
experienced overall population declines since 2000, even as the share of
American Indian or Alaska Native residents in these counties remained fairly
flat,” said the Pew analysis.
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Other reports have shown that the share of immigrants, mostly
Hispanic, have continued to break records due to legal and illegal immigration
and the baby boom among new arrivals.
The majority black counties are also in the South, though
mostly from Louisiana and to the east.
“While the black share of the total U.S. population has not
changed substantially over the last two decades, the number of majority black
counties in the U.S. grew from 65 to 72 between 2000 and 2018. One contributing
factor may be migration of black Americans from the North to the South and from
cities into suburbs,” said Pew.
Census
Bureau: Immigration Driving Half of U.S. Population Growth
Immigration to the United States is now driving
nearly half of all population growth in the country instead of increased birth
rates, the U.S. Census Bureau finds.
The latest Census Bureau estimates on the U.S. population
reveal that about 48.5 percent of all population growth is driven by the
country’s mass illegal and legal immigration policy, where more than 1.5
million foreign nationals are admitted to the country every year.
(Axios)
Axios analysis by Stef Knight details the
growing share to which immigration is increasingly driving population growth
across the U.S. Since 2011, for example, the level to which immigration has
accounted for overall population growth has increased more than 13 percent.
According to
the Wall Street Journal analysis,
about nine percent of U.S. counties are growing solely because of immigration.
This concludes that about nine percent of counties have regional birth rates
that do not exceed the annual number of deaths in the area.
Similarly,
the Wall Street Journal notes,
more than half of all population growth in states like Florida, Ohio, Virginia,
Kansas, and Michigan, among others, is because of immigration.
Though
pundits have claimed that the country’s admittance of 1.2 million legal immigrants
a year is necessary to increase birth rates, researchers have found that the
growth of the immigrant population has little impact on birth rates.
Center for
Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota discovered in his latest study this year that
“immigrant fertility has only a small impact on the nation’s overall birth
rate,” citing that immigrants in the U.S. raise the nation’s birth rate for all
women by two births per 1,000 women.
“Immigration
has a minor impact because the difference between immigrant and native
fertility is too small to significantly change the nation’s overall birth
rate,” Camarota noted in the study.
At current
legal immigration levels, the U.S. population is set to hit an unprecedented 404 million residents by 2060 — including
a foreign-born population of 69 million.
The U.S.
does not have to rapidly increase its total resident population and
foreign-born population, as legal immigration moratoriums have been implemented in the past to give time for new
arrivals to properly assimilate to American life. Halting all immigration to
the country would stabilize the population to a comfortable 329 million residents
in the next four decades.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News.
Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
Report: White House Prepares Plan to Save California from
Homelessness
US tech giants split over corporate tax to help
homelessAFP/Josh Edelson
JOEL B. POLLAK 21 Nov 2019
White House officials are reportedly preparing a plan for
federal intervention in California to save the state from the growing homeless
crisis, which state and local officials have been unable — or unwilling — to
address.
President Donald Trump has raised the issue for months —
often in attacking Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), whose San
Francisco district has seen an explosion of homelessness and drug use on the
doorstep of massive wealth.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
I can’t believe that Nancy Pelosi’s District in San Francisco
is in such horrible shape that the City itself is in violation of many sanitary
& environmental orders, causing it to owe the Federal Government billions
of dollars - and all she works on is Impeachment.....
However, the Trump administration has also hinted for months
that it might take action. In September, Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) Dr. Ben Carson visited Skid Row in Los Angeles and warned
that the city could suffer an “epidemic” if endemic diseases took advantage of
squalid conditions in homeless encampments. The Washington Post reported at
that time that the Trump administration was considering moving homeless people
to an unused Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) facility.
The Post reported Thursday that a plan may soon be ready:
The plan is expected to be shown to Trump in coming weeks,
officials said, perhaps as soon as next week. Trump will be able to select
ideas for how to address the growing homeless problem in several major cities.
One person involved in deliberations said the
administration’s plans are likely to target homelessness in Los Angeles and
could include repurposing existing federal property, but the exact set of
policy options to be presented to the president could not be learned. As part of the talks, officials have
also discussed moving homeless people from specific areas and condemning
certain properties, though it’s unclear whether those options will make it into
the final plan.
The president would likely be on firm legal ground, as
Breitbart News noted earlier this year:
The president could invoke the National Emergencies Act of
1976 to declare an emergency, and could also invoke the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988, which allows a president
to override state authorities and bring in the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) if “he [the president] determines that an emergency exists for
which the primary responsibility for response rests with the United States
because the emergency involves a subject area for which, under the Constitution
or laws of the United States, the United States exercises exclusive or
preeminent responsibility and authority.”
Dr. Drew Pinsky warned earlier this year that L.A. could see
an outbreak of bubonic plague — which is endemic in some rodents in the area —
unless the homeless crisis were addressed.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News.
He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy
from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the
2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How
Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery.
Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Illegal Immigration Is the Reason California Is Burning
By Wayne Allyn Root
Newsmax.com, October 31, 2019
A firefighting helicopter makes a water drop over the Easy
Fire on October 30, 2019, near Simi Valley, California. (David McNew/Getty
Images)
California is collapsing in front of our eyes. Everyone with
the money and common sense is running for their lives. The question is why is
this happening to such a rich and beautiful state?
Let's start with a comparison of the taxes in California with
my state of Nevada (right next door to California). While California was
burying its citizens with among the nation’s highest personal income taxes,
highest corporate income taxes, highest sales taxes, and highest gas taxes,
Nevada’s citizens have enjoyed among the lowest taxes in the country.
That could be why millions of people have left California in
the past decade — almost all for the low tax states like Nevada, Texas,
Florida, Utah, Colorado, Washington, and Arizona. Those states lead the nation
in population growth, while California and other high tax, blue states lead the
nation in population loss.
Keep in mind this was all before the nonstop blackouts and $6
per gallon gas in California.
Who can live in a place where the electric utility company
shuts off the power to homes and businesses for days on end, multiple times per
year? Because the wind is blowing hard? California has truly become a Third
World Nation.
Keep in mind, this is what you got for all those high taxes.
So why is this happening? I lived in California for 15
wonderful years. The winds howled back then too. We had 80 MPH Santa Ana winds.
And plenty of fires, floods, mudslides, and earthquakes. I lived through all of
them. My home almost burned three times. My car was almost carried away by a
massive mudslide.
Yet in my 15 years in California, no one shut off electricity
because the wind was blowing. No one shut off electricity because there was the
threat of a fire.
I’m not a California hater. I loved my time in California. It
is the most beautiful state in America, with the greatest weather. But
something has dramatically changed since I left. Today I wouldn’t live there if
you gave me a $5 million oceanfront mansion for free.
What’s changed is disastrous liberal policy.
Lots of liberal ideas ruined California: high taxes, stifling
regulations, climate change policy, permissive policies towards homeless
encampments, the highest welfare benefits in the nation, a $15 minimum wage.
It’s impossible to run a business in California. Restaurants are closing by the
hundreds.
California has become an unlivable third-world hellhole.
But despite all those liberal policies that have contributed
to the rot of California, one issue is at the root of California’s current
problems. One issue stands heads and tails above all the rest.
First and foremost, illegal immigration is the problem. Since
I left two decades ago, California has collectively spent hundreds of billions
of dollars on illegal aliens and their bills — public schools, free meals at
school, special bi-lingual teachers, healthcare, housing allowances, low income
energy assistance, aid to families with dependent children, prisons, cops,
courts, public defenders, welfare, food stamps, and a hundred other government
handouts. And don’t forget special lower college tuition for illegal
immigrants.
Can you imagine if all those billions of dollars were instead
spent on new infrastructure, moving power poles underground, upgraded
electrical equipment, modernized electrical systems, homeless vets, more cops,
and better schools for children born in California. Can you imagine what a
better place California would be for its own citizens?
Think about it in personal terms. What if a husband and
father has a drug problem. He's addicted to cocaine or heroin. He spends
$20,000 a year on his drug addiction for 20 years. That's $400,000. But his
life remains in control. Until one day he finds out his child has cancer. The
bill is $100,000 (after insurance pays). But he doesn't have the $100,000. His
child is dying. If only he had the $400,000 back that he wasted on drugs.
That's California and illegal immigration. The state has
squandered hundreds of billions on illegal immigration in the 20 years since
I've been gone. They could use that money today. They desperately need it back
to pay for the hundred-billion-dollar job of upgrading and modernizing their
electric grid.
But they don't have the money. It's all been wasted on
illegal aliens. And it's gone forever.
I guarantee you one thing Californians: if you had all that
money back, you wouldn’t be sitting in the dark.
In my next column, I’ll get to Part II of the disastrous
mistakes of liberalism that have destroyed California. Think idiotic
environmental policies and climate change fraud.
That's another few hundred billion dollars wasted — and gone
forever. Think about that, as you sit in the dark, shivering or sizzling, with
your food spoiling.
Think about that as you fill up your gas tank with $5 our $6
per gallon gas, driving on crumbling highways, in massive traffic jams.
All the money to fix your misery was spent on illegal aliens,
not you. How does that make you feel?
Trust me, if you impeach President Trump and elect Democrats
to run the country, Democrats will turn the whole America into one big crappy,
miserable, unlivable California.
Except you won't even get the sunshine and perfect 75 degree
days.
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CALIFORNIA
IS A STATE WITH 15 MILLION ILLEGALS -
NOW DO THE MATH ON THE HOUSING CRISIS AND HOMELESSNESS
Californians
cite homelessness as top concern for first time ever, survey finds
By BEN CHRISTOPHER | CALmatters
PUBLISHED: October 7, 2019
Californians are increasingly pessimistic about the future of
the state and are more worried about housing and homelessness than ever before.
And at least according to one major poll, they’re beginning
to take it out on Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic state Legislature.
California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks at the Henry Robinson
Multi-Service Center in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, May 21, 2019. Newsom
announced the formation of the Homeless & Supportive Housing Advisory Task
Force and has pledged $1 billion of the state budget to fight homelessness.
(Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)
In new survey results released today, the Public Policy
Institute of California found that more likely voters now disapprove of
Newsom’s job performance than approve.
But the new round of numbers are in sharp contrast to a
survey released last week by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies,
which found likely voters approving of Newsom by a margin of nearly 20
percentage points.
The PPIC poll also found that 1 in 4 Californians now point
to housing and homelessness as the “most important issue facing people in
California today.” Of the 1,700 adults surveyed, 15% listed “homelessness” as a
top concern and 11% named housing.
Another 15% said “jobs and the economy.”
While jobs are a perennial concern for Californians, this is
the first time the state’s homeless crisis was a top source of public angst,
said PPIC president Mark Baldassare.
“We started polling in 1998. It’s never been tied for number
one,” he said. “Democrats, Republicans, independents all had it in the first
tier of concern.”
Those concerns are part of a broader feeling of “political
and economic malaise” across the state, he said.
Roughly half of the respondents said that the state is headed
in the “wrong direction.” Likely voters were even more pessimistic, with 54%
offering a grim prognosis of the state’s future, including 60% of political
independents.
And that seems to have translated into lower approval ratings
for the state’s elected lawmakers.
Nearly a year into his first term, the poll found that 44% of
likely voters disapprove of the governor. That’s the first time the survey has
found more voters with a negative opinion of the state’s governor than a
positive view since 2012.
The survey had other bad news for state lawmakers, one of
whom happens to be running for president. An outright majority of likely voters
(51%) said that they disapprove of the state Legislature and 46% disapprove of
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris.
residential support for California’s junior senator fell to
just 8% among Democratic-leaning voters statewide — well behind Elizabeth
Warren, Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, who were in an effective three-way tie
for first place.
The poll ought to give the new governor a bit of public
opinion whiplash.
On Monday, the Berkeley IGS poll reported that 60% of
registered voters either strongly or somewhat approve of the governor’s job
performance versus 39% who do not.
The much higher approval rate in the Berkeley survey is
likely due to the fact that while the Public Policy Institute’s phone survey
allows respondents to register no opinion, Berkeley’s online poll does not.
Even the Berkeley survey offered a mixed bag for the governor
when you scratch beneath the surface: 42% of respondents said that they only
“somewhat approve” of the governor.
“A lot of his approval is mild,” said Mark DiCamillo, who
runs Berkeley’s poll. “It’s sort of like, ‘He’s okay.’ ‘I guess so.’”
There are other methodological differences between the two
surveys, though both are respected and have established track records for
accuracy. Even if well-designed and administered, individual polls may
occasionally produce out-of-whack estimates just by random chance.
Today’s new polling also offers mixed news for supporters of
some of the ballot measures likely to be on the 2020 ballots.
Asked about a $15 billion bond that would fund public school
infrastructure construction and upkeep, 54% of likely voters in the Public
Policy Institute survey said that they would vote for it. Supporters are still
waiting for Gov. Newsom to sign a bill that would place the measure on the
March ballot.
But likely voters are evenly divided (47% to 45%) on a
proposal, often referred to as “split roll,” that would raise property taxes on
large companies, resetting rates based on the current market prices of land and
buildings. That idea is opposed by all of the state’s major business groups.
“Split roll clearly being under 50% is a difficult place to
start, especially knowing that there is a ‘no’ side to that ballot initiative
that is not shy about spending millions of dollars,” said Baldassare.
HOMELESS IN CALIFORNIA
- MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY
WITH A MULTIBILLION DOLLAR MEXICAN WELFARE STATE THAT INCLUDES WELFARE
SUBSIDIES FOR MEXICANS NOT LAWFULLY IN THIS COUNTRY ing Medieval in California’s Streets
Fueled by progressive
indifference, the state’s public-health crisis is mounting.
June 4, 2019
California
Health Care
California,
to some people’s way of thinking, is the most modern state in the country, if
not the most cutting-edge place on earth. It’s progressive, hip, innovative—a
bellwether, filled with pioneers and opinion-makers. It’s also unique for its
constant battles against biblical catastrophes—earthquakes, droughts,
landslides, and floods are all part of the state’s past as well as its present,
as are raging wildfires that have left large tracts in ashes. Even secular
humanists might be tempted to declare the state cursed.
Now
California is home to a public-health crisis. This one is no act of God,
though, but rather the inevitable result of tolerating unsanitary conditions.
Diseases, some bringing to mind medieval times , have returned to urban
streets. Typhus, carried by infected fleas and transmitted by rats and other
animals, plagues Los Angeles. Hepatitis A, spread through fecal matter,
has sickened more than 1,000 people in Southern California
since 2017. A “trash and rodent nightmare” threatens downtown Los
Angeles. There’s “a mountain of rotting, oozing, stinking trash” that stretches
“a good 20 yards along a skid row alley,” where “rats popped their heads out of
the debris like they were in a game of Whac-A-Mole.”
The
garbage and disease outbreaks are closely linked. In late May, the local NBC
affiliate reported that “ piles of rotting garbage left uncollected by
the city of Los Angeles, even after promises to clean it up, are fueling
concerns about a new epidemic after last year’s record number of flea-borne
typhus cases.” These garbage piles, along with human feces in San Francisco
streets requiring apps for avoidance,
contrast with California’s progressive past. Progressives once cared about
clean streets and public health. Today, they value political correctness,
protecting the interests of the homeless over pedestrians. Their policies have
produced appalling conditions in urban neighborhoods.
“This approach calls itself progressive but is
the polar opposite of what progressives supported, which was sanitation and
public health,” said Joel Kotkin, a City Journal contributing editor and a
Chapman University fellow. “Sewer socialism, if you will, was a noble attempt
to clean up what were often dirty dystopias. The new progressives want to create
a new green dystopia, turning the modern city back into a place more like
Dharavi in Mumbai than La Guardia’s New York.”
Henry
Miller, a senior fellow for health studies at the Pacific Research Institute,
believes that California is virtually unable to provide basic municipal
services. The state “has become a victim of its own attractiveness, combined
with political mismanagement” and “one-party rule.” Miller agrees with the
downtown merchant who told a Los Angeles Times columnist that
“once a pile takes shape, the appearance of lawlessness and neglect is a magnet for other dumpers .” The same, he noted, is
“true of homeless encampments, panhandlers, the expansion of skid row
neighborhoods, the increase in vandalism and other minor crimes, and so on.”
Under
progressive governance, California appears to be regressing at an alarming
pace. While the state can’t do much about some disasters, aside from cleaning
up afterward, it can stop its self-inflicted march into the past.
Kerry Jackson is a fellow with the
Center for California Reform at the Pacific Research Institute.
Los Angeles Homelessness Surges 12 Percent: 59,000 Now on
the Streets…. OF COURSE ,THEY REALLY HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY HOMLESS OR ILLEGALS
LIVE IN LOS ANGELES!
4 Jun 20191,633
The number of
homeless people in Los Angeles County jumped 12 percent over the last year to
nearly 59,000 living on the streets, according to a report released Tuesday.
The newly released data revealed
that nearly three-fourths of the homeless population, which includes 58,936
people, are sleeping in cars, tents, and other make-do shelters.
Released by the Los Angeles Homeless
Services Authority to the Board of Supervisors, the data found that the
majority of homeless people were residing in the city of Los Angeles, which saw
an increase of 16 percent to 36,300.
Officials claim the data show
economic stress placed on the thousands that are on the streets and said that
they have worked to provide permanent housing for some 21,631 people over the
year.
The report revealed more than 3,800
of the total homeless population are veterans, 2,866 of which are unsheltered
and “not in family units.”
The total of unaccompanied minors
who are “not included in family units” and are homeless totaled 66, with 45 of
those without shelter.
In a tweet issued to his account
last week, Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom boasted that “California’s
what happens when rights are respected.”
California’s what happens when rights are respected. When
work is rewarded. When nature’s protected. When diversity is celebrated and
free markets are fair markets.
We are nothing less than the progressive answer to a
transgressive President. #CADEM19
“California’s
what happens when rights are respected,” Newsom stated. “When work is rewarded.
When nature’s protected. When diversity is celebrated and free markets are fair
markets.”
He
added, “We are nothing less than the progressive answer to a transgressive
President.”
AMERICA: ONE PAYCHECK
AND ONE HUNDRED ILLEGALS AWAY FROM HOMELESSNESS!
A dashcam video of downtown
Los Angeles on Christmas day reveals a stunning sight: hundreds of tents and
lean-tos on the sidewalks that serve as shelter for the homeless. The scene is
reminiscent of a third-world country. RICK MORAN / AMERICANTHINKER
com
HOMELESS CRISIS IN LOS ANGELES, MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST
CITY WORSENS BY THE DAY….
Approximates the great depression
HOMELESS AMERICA’S
HOUSING CRISIS as 40 million illegals have climbed U.S. open borders.
EVERY AMERICAN (Legal)
only one paycheck and one hundred illegals away from living in their cars.
Nolte:
Punk Legend Johnny Rotten Sounds Alarm over L.A. Homeless Epidemic
Michael Loccisano/Getty
Images for Tribeca Film Festival
29 Apr 2019422
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Sex Pistols
frontman Johnny Rotten isn’t afraid to buck the establishment and sound the
alarm over L.A.’s homeless epidemic, which has literally landed at his front door.
The 63-year-old lives in Venice
Beach where there has been a surge of homeless vagrants that have vandalized
his multi-million dollar home and spoiled the beaches with “poo” and “needles.”
“A couple of weeks ago I had a
problem,” he said. “They came over the gate and put their tent inside, right in
front of the front door. It’s like . . . the audacity. And if you complain,
what are you? Oh, one of the establishment elite? No, I’m a bloke that’s worked
hard for his money and I expect to be able to use my own front door.”
He added that his wife Nora, who
suffers from Alzheimer’s, isn’t able to cope with bums trying to “steal the
iron bars off the windows” for the scrap metal and bricks coming through his
windows.
“My wife’s ill and she can’t cope
with this. But at 2 a.m. last week, a brick whizzed through the top floor
window, the bedroom. Sorry, Mr. Policeman. I need your help.”
“The vagrants moved in en masse . . . [in]
tent cities. They’re all young; they’re all like 24,” he said, adding that,
“They’re aggressive, and because there’s an awful lot of them together they’re
gang-y.”
They have also spoiled beach life:
“And the heroin spikes . . . You can’t take anyone to the beach because there’s
jabs just waiting for young kids to put their feet in — and poo all over the
sand.”
This might sound like hypocrisy
coming from a punk rocker, but it’s really not. The whole ethos of ’70s and
’80s punk rock is live and let live. No rules … at least until you interfere
with me living the life I want to live, which is exactly what is happening to
Rotten.
If you want to know what an actual
punk rock sellout looks like, I give you Henry Rollins, the Vandals
legend who endorsed … Obamacare.
In fact, Rotten (whose real name is
John Lydon) is bucking an establishment that treats these vagrants as sacred
cows while at the same time pretending they do not exist because their rising
numbers reflect badly on the Democrat-run strongholds that cannot manage the
growing problem.
The media and the left-wing
political establishment want us to see the homeless as victims of a cruel
American capitalism that allows good people to fall through society’s cracks.
Naturally, the only solution to this problem is big government socialism.
But the truth is that American
capitalism licked poverty decades ago. The so-called “poor” in this country now
have cable TV, central heat, air conditioning, videogames, microwave ovens,
iPhones, and struggle with over eating.
The homeless are an altogether different problem.
Certainly, good people slip through
the cracks temporarily. No question. But there are all kinds of avenues to help
those who are sincere about getting back on their feet. The homeless epidemic
is actually an epidemic of mental illness, addiction, and tolerance.
City’s that tolerate poopy beaches
and sidewalks, hypodermic needles, and aggressive panhandling only end up attracting
even bigger problems and making the lives of their normal citizens miserable.
Johnny Rotten complaining about one
of the most sacred of sacred cows is as punk as it gets, and so is his support
of Trump and Brexit .
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Another line
they cut into: Illegals get free public housing as impoverished Americans wait
Want some perspective on
why so many blue sanctuary cities have so many homeless encampments hovering
around?
Try the reality that
illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the U.S., based
on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely unemployable. Those are the
criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier. Shockingly,
this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold awaiting that
housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the tent cities,
and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in blue
sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San Francisco,
San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum, it's worth
looking at.
The Trump
administration's Department of Housing and Urban Development is finally trying
to put a stop to it as 1.5 million illegals prepare to enter the U.S. this
year, and one can only wonder why they didn't do it yesterday.
The plan would scrap
Clinton-era regulations that allowed illegal immigrants to sign up for
assistance without having to disclose their status.
Under the new Trump rules, not only
would the leaseholder using public housing have to be an eligible U.S. person,
but the government would verify all applicants through the Systematic Alien
Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, a federal system that’s used to
weed illegal immigrants out of other welfare programs.
Those already
getting HUD assistance would
have to go through a new verification, though it would be over a period of time
and wouldn’t all come at once.
“We’ve got our own people
to house and need to take care of our citizens,” an administration official
told The Washington Times. “Because of past loopholes in HUD guidance, illegal aliens
were able to live in free public housing desperately needed by so many of our
own citizens. As illegal aliens attempt to swarm our borders, we’re sending the
message that you can’t live off of American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime.”
The Times notes that the
rules are confusingly contradictary, and some illegal immigrant families are
getting full rides based on just one member being born in the U.S. The
pregnant caravaner who calculatingly slipped across the U.S. in San Diego late
last year, only to have her baby the next day, now, along with her entire
family, gets that free ride on government housing. Plus lots of cheesy news coverage about how
heartwarming it all is. That's a lot cheaper than any housing she's going to
find back in Tegucigalpa.
Migrants would be almost
fools not to take the offering.
The problem of course is
that Americans who paid into these programs, and the subset who find themselves
in dire circumstances, are in fact being shut out.
The fill-the-pews
Catholic archbishops may love to tout the virtues of illegal immigrants
and wave signs about getting 'justice" for them, but the hard fact
here is that these foreign nationals are stealing from others as they
take this housing benefit under legal technicalities. That's not a good
thing under anyone's theological law. But hypocrisy is comfortable ground for
the entire open borders lobby as they shamelessly celebrate lawbreaking
at the border, leaving the impoverished of the U.S. out cold.
The Trump administration
is trying to have this outrage fixed by summer. But don't imagine it won't
be without the open-borders lawsuits, the media sob stories, the leftist judges,
and the scolding clerics.
The Trump Administration Is Cracking Down On
Illegal Aliens' Housing
Source: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
The Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) plans to crack down on illegal aliens who
are taking advantage of public house assistance programs, The Daily Caller reported. As it
currently stands, illegal aliens are now allowed to receive financial housing
assistance. They often skirt this rule by living with family members who are
U.S. citizens and receive their assistance from HUD.
The new rule would
prevent illegal aliens from living in homes that receive HUD funding, even if
they're not the ones actually receiving the assistance. Those who are caught
with illegal aliens living in their homes will have to comply with the new rule
or move to a different non-HUD location.
To determine whether or
not a household is complying with the program, families will be screened
through the "SAVE" program, which stands for Systematic Alien
Verification for Entitlements.
HUD estimates that
there are tens of thousands of illegal aliens who are skirting the requirement
process by living in these "mixed families." As of now, millions of
Americans are on the HUD waitlist because there isn't enough money to assist everyone.
“This proposal gets to
the whole point Cher was making in her tweet that the President retweeted.
We’ve got our own people to house and we need to take care of our citizens,” a
HUD official told The Daily Caller . “Because of past loopholes in
HUD guidance, illegal aliens were able to live in free public housing
desperately needed by so many of our own citizens. As illegal aliens attempt to
swarm our borders, we’re sending the message that you can’t live off of
American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime.”
Sanctuary Cities Welcome
Illegal Aliens with ‘Open Arms’ While 38K American Veterans Remain Homeless
JOHN BINDER
Sanctuary
cities across the United States are responding to President Donald Trump’s
threat to bus border crossers and illegal aliens to their jurisdictions, saying
they plan to welcome all illegal immigration with “open arms” despite soaring
homelessness problems.
Last week, Trump threatened to bus border crossers and illegal aliens into
sanctuary cities and states, like California and New York City, if the
country’s asylum laws were not changed. White House Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders on Sunday confirmed that the White House is considering the plan.
“The USA has the absolute legal right to have apprehended
illegal immigrants transferred to Sanctuary Cities,” Trump posted on Twitter
over the weekend. “We hereby demand that they be taken care of at the highest
level, especially by the State of California, which is well known or it’s poor
management & high taxes!”
Just out: The USA has
the absolute legal right to have apprehended illegal immigrants transferred to
Sanctuary Cities. We hereby demand that they be taken care of at the highest
level, especially by the State of California, which is well known or its poor management
& high taxes!
Sanctuary city mayors like Oakland, California, Mayor Libby
Schaaf have responded to Trump’s threat by saying they plan to welcome any and
all illegal aliens to their cities — even those cities that are struggling with
rising homelessness. Currently, there are nearly 38,000 homeless American veterans across the country.
“Oakland welcomes all, no matter where you came from or how you
got here,” Schaaf wrote on Twitter.
As of 2017, there were more than 2,700 Oakland residents who were homeless — an increase of 25
percent when compared to two years before. In all of Alameda
County, there are about 5,630 homeless residents. In all of California,
there are nearly 130,000 homeless residents, including nearly 11,000 homeless
American Veterans.
Sanctuary city New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio originally
blasted Trump for the plan, claiming the president was using illegal aliens as
“chess pieces,” but he then advocated for giving illegal aliens driver’s
licenses in order to attract more illegal aliens to the state.
“Undocumented immigrants are our neighbors and part of the
backbone of our economy,” de Blasio wrote online. “It’s mind-boggling that they
aren’t allowed to have driver’s licenses in New York State.”
New York City homelessness has reached the highest levels since
the 1930s when the country struggled through the Great Depression. Today,
there are nearly 64,000 homeless residents in New York City, including more than
15,000 homeless families with almost 23,000 homeless children. This is the
largest metro area homeless population in the country. There are more than
1,200 homeless American veterans living in New York state.
In interviews with the Daily Beast , sanctuary
city mayors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; and Cambridge,
Massachusetts, said their jurisdictions would be happy to welcome all illegal
aliens.
Philadelphia, Chicago, and Cambridge have a combined homeless
population of at least 12,000 residents. In the state of Massachusetts, alone,
there are now more than 20,000 homeless residents, including almost 1,000 homeless American
veterans.
“The city would be prepared to welcome these immigrants just as
we have embraced our immigrant communities for decades,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim
Kenney said.
“As a welcoming city, we would welcome these migrants with open
arms, just as we welcomed Syrian refugees, just as we welcomed Puerto Ricans
displaced by Hurricane Maria and just as we welcome Rohingya refugees fleeing
genocide in Myanmar,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.
Burlington, Vermont, Mayor Miro Weinberger said in a statement that illegal aliens were vital to making
his city “more prosperous” and “more diverse.”
“We know from decades of experience that newcomers to Burlington
will make us more prosperous, more diverse and stronger, just as generations of
past immigrants have driven our past growth and success,” Weinberger said.
In total, there are more than 550,000 American residents who are
homeless nationwide. Meanwhile, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million illegal
and legal immigrants every year — the overwhelming majority of which are low
skilled workers who compete for jobs against America’s poor, working, and
middle class. The Washington, DC-imposed mass immigration policy drives housing costs up for Americans, economists have found.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him
on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
Cher: Los Angeles ‘Can’t Take Care
of Its Own, How Can It Take Care of’ More Immigrants
JOHN BINDER
Pop icon Cher said Sunday that Los
Angeles, California, “can’t take care of its own” residents, much less newly
arrived illegal and legal immigrants.
Cher said
she failed to understand how the city of Los Angeles in the sanctuary state of
California could afford to admit and take care of any more immigrants when city
officials have failed to care for homeless, veterans, and poverty-stricken
Americans.
“I Understand Helping
struggling Immigrants,but MY CITY (Los Angeles) ISNT TAKING CARE OF ITS
OWN.WHAT ABOUT THE 50,000+Citizens WHO LIVE ON THE STREETS.PPL WHO LIVE BELOW
POVERTY LINE,& HUNGRY? If My State Can’t Take Care of Its Own(Many Are
VETS)How Can it Take Care Of More,” Cher said.
I Understand Helping struggling Immigrants,but MY CITY
(Los Angeles) ISNT TAKING CARE OF ITS OWN.WHAT ABOUT THE 50,000+ Citizens
WHO LIVE ON THE STREETS.PPL WHO LIVE BELOW POVERTY LINE,& HUNGRY? If My
State Can’t Take Care of Its Own(Many Are VETS)How Can it Take Care Of More
The post came after President Trump threatened to bus border crossers and illegal aliens into
sanctuary cities and states, like California, if the country’s asylum laws
were not changed. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that the White House is considering the plan.
In response, Democrat mayors across the country — like New York City Mayor Bill de
Blasio and Oakland, California Mayor Libby Schaaf — have welcomed bringing illegal aliens and border
crossers to their cities.
While left-wing mayors say they will continue to admit any and
all illegal and legal immigrants, Los Angeles is home to the second largest homeless population in the country, second to only New
York City. About 50,000 residents of Los Angeles are homeless and about 7.5
percent of California’s American Veteran population is homeless.
As the city remains crippled by homelessness and skyrocketing
housing costs, Los Angeles metro area is also home to the second largest
illegal alien population — with nearly a million illegal aliens living in the
region, according to Pew Research Center.
Last year, economists at Deakin University found that immigration — both illegal and legal — drives up
housing prices on average, with the researchers writing “we find no evidence
that house prices sink as a result of immigration.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him
on Twitter at @JxhnBinder .
MEXICO WILL DOUBLE U.S. POPULATION
MAP OF THE LA RAZA OCCUPATION:
IMMIGRANT SHARE OF ADULTS QUADRUPLED IN
232 COUNTIES
"La Voz de Aztlan has produced a video in honor of the
millions of babies that have been born as US citizens to Mexican undocumented
parents. These babies are destined to transform America. The nativist CNN
reporter Lou Dobbs estimates that there are over 200,000 (dated) "Anchor
Babies" born every year whereas George Putnam, a radio reporter, says the
figure is closer to 300,000 (dated). La Voz de Aztlan believes
that the number is approximately 500,000 (dated) "Anchor Babies" born every year."
HOUSING CRISIS? HERE ARE THE NEW
NUMBERS:
“Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million legal
and illegal immigrants every year, with more than 70 percent coming to the
country through the process known as “chain migration” whereby newly
naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the
U.S. In the next 20 years, the current U.S. legal immigration system is on
track to import roughly 15
million new
LA City
Council May Operate Tent Encampments for 34,000 Homeless… THEY DON’T ASK
ILLEGALS TO LIVE IN TENTS!!!
Jae C. Hong / Associated
Press
The Los Angeles City Council voted last week
to develop an “emergency” plan that could operate trailer and tent encampments
to house 34,000-homeless — similar to the plan developed by Orange County.
The Los Angeles City Council on March 23 declared a homeless crisis by requesting the Los Angeles County
Homeless Services Authority implement an Emergency Response to Homelessness
Plan that would provide an alternative to encampments for 100 percent of the
Los Angeles homeless population by December 31, 2018.
The Los Angeles Housing Authority recently reported that of the 34,189 homeless identified in the 2017
federally mandated count, 25,237 or 76 percent, were unsheltered and living on
sidewalks, cars, tents, or mobile homes.
The report was released 16 months after homeless advocates convinced
city voters they could permanently solve homeless by passing Measure HHH ballot initiative, which raised property taxes by $9.64
per $100,000 of assessed valuation to fund a $1.2 billion bond.
Los Angeles County then convinced voters in March 2017 to pass
Measure H to provide $350 million per year worth of homeless mental health and
addiction services through a ¼ percent increased sales tax up to 10 percent in a number of L.A. County cities.
Both measures only achieved the 2/3 majority required to pass
because of a miraculous surge from absentee voters
in central and south LA districts that supported higher taxes.
LA City Council members also recently voted to build 222 units of permanent supportive homeless housing in each
of the 15 LA City Council districts by 2020. The first 122 of the 3,330
approved homeless units broke ground in East Hollywood in November.
But the federal 2017 City of Los Angeles homeless count found the population had spiked by 5,698, or about 20 percent,
since 2016. That means despite raising $1.2 billion in taxes, the net number of
homeless after the new construction has already increased by 2,368.
Last month, the city council voted unanimously to start
housing 60 homeless people in trailers on a city-owned downtown lot. But despite the city paying
$2 million for trailers equipped with bathrooms and showers, and funding
allocating another $1 million a year to operate the downtown trailer park, CBS
News reported that local restaurant owners say transients already hurt
their business, and the trailers will make the situation worse.
The City of Los Angeles told voters it could solve the homeless
problem with the HHH tax increase and $1.2 billion. But it cost Orange County
$780,000 per month temporarily to house 700 homeless evicted from the Santa Ana
River in 400 motel rooms. Given the enormous scale of L.A.’s homeless problem,
that would cost the city about $49.2 million a month.
Orange County Supervisors voted on March 19 to set up tent
cities on county parcels next to public parks in Irvine, Huntington, and Laguna
Niguel. All 3 cities are threatening to file lawsuits to prevent the Orange
County from dumping its problem on local communities.
None of the 15 Los Angeles Districts wants the risk exposure to
infectious diseases that come with a homeless encampment. Breitbart News reported that a hepatitis A outbreak began among San Diego’s
homeless population and has spread statewide. The latest California Public
Health report found 703 new cases, 460 hospitalizations, and 21 deaths.
Rising Homelessness Among
Working Californians… a state that employs millions using stolen social
security numbers and hands out tens of BILLIONS in social services and welfare!
BE HONEST! WHEN HAVE YOU EVER
HEARD EVEN ONE OF THESE PRO-AMNESTY AND OPEN BORDERS POLITICIANS EVEN MENTION
THE TRAGEDY OF AMERICA’S MILLION HOMELESS LEGALS???
In
California, the rising number of homeless people are not who you may think they
are. The Los Angeles Times editorial board recently
drove home that point by personalizing what
it means to be homeless in the United States' second-most populous city in
2018.
Many people think of homelessness as a problem of substance
abusers and mentally ill people, of chronic skid row street-dwellers pushing
shopping carts. But increasingly, the crisis in Los Angeles today is about a
less visible (but more numerous) group of “economically homeless” people. These
are people who have been driven onto the streets or into shelters by hard
times, bad luck and California’s irresponsible failure to address its own
housing needs.
Consider Nadia, whose story has become typical. When she decided
she had to end her abusive marriage, she knew it would be hard to find an
affordable place to live with her three young children. With her husband, she
had paid $2,000 a month for a three-bedroom condo in the San Fernando Valley,
but prices were rising rapidly, and now two-bedroom apartments in the area were
going for $2,400 — an impossible rent for a single parent who worked part time
at Magic Mountain.
Nadia and her children are among the economically homeless —
men, women and, often enough, families, who find themselves without a place to
live because of some kind of setback or immediate crisis: a divorce, a
short-term illness, a loss of a job, an eviction. In many cities across the
nation, these are not necessarily problems that would plunge a person into
homelessness. But here they can. Why? Because of the shockingly high cost of
housing in Los Angeles.
Perhaps the most important thing that anyone should take away
from Times' editors' take on Nadia's situation is that she is functional adult
who is more than capable of improving her lot. Later in the editorial, the LA
Times' editors disclose that she was able to get her family into a homeless
shelter and that she has been able to secure a full time job doing data entry
at an insurance company, where only a few of her co-workers know of her
homeless status.
Nadia is far from alone in Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, north of Los Angeles, Santa Barbara is one of
the wealthiest cities in California. There, the New Beginnings counseling
center has
made arrangements to
allow up to 150 Californians who are either living in their cars or in
recreational vehicles to
be able to park them overnight in the otherwise empty parking lots of local
churches and government offices.
The clients can park after 7 p.m., but have to clear out as
early as 6 a.m. The benefit is that the vehicles are no longer parked on city
streets, which riles some residents and merchants. And because the lots are
monitored by New Beginnings, the clients, who all go through a screening
process, can at least feel safe while they sleep.
Santiago Geronimo works in the kitchen of a high-end Santa
Barbara restaurant and until recently, he, his girlfriend and her son Luis
lived in a two-bedroom apartment shared by four adults and three kids. But the
girlfriend, Luisa Ramirez, lost her retail clerk job because of a back injury,
and they've lived in a Ford Explorer since September. Their new home is a
church parking lot on the Goleta border.
There is a common element among many of California's employed
homeless, in that many were living in apartments or houses until one of their
household's members experienced a job loss. Beyond that, many were employed
with relatively good incomes until they lost their jobs, where they soon found
that their available employment options were limited to low-paying jobs that
weren't enough to pay their rents or mortgages.
Then the evictions came, and they became homeless. All across
the state.
Steve Lopez, a LA Times columnist, asked a good question
about why California's working population doesn't move to where housing is
cheaper:
You might ask why
people of lesser means don't head to less expensive areas than Santa Barbara —
it's a fair question, and I've written about people who eventually did make
such a move. In Santa Barbara, the answers I got were the same ones I've heard
elsewhere in coastal California. People hold open the option of leaving, but
many are connected to specific places by history, family and employment
connections, and they're not quite ready to give up on a turnaround, move to a
place they don't know, and start over from scratch.
Besides that, local
economies rely on those of lesser means, so where are they supposed to live?
"You know,"
said Phil, "there's a huge Hispanic population that does all the damn work
around here. Every restaurant you go into, you can watch them slaving away. And
they're taking care of people's gardens and everything else, and they wind up
with eight or 10 people living in a one-bedroom place."
Until that doesn't work, as Santiago Geronimo found out.
The truth is that many Californians have tried to move to
greener pastures, as many have from California's economically-distressed
Central Valley, where that region's oil industry has yet to recover from
the decline of oil prices from July 2014 through February 2016. According to
Moody's, for every job lost in the oil and gas industry, an additional 3.43 jobs may be lost in other sectors, creating a negative deficit that
other, more strongly growing sectors of the economy must be in overdrive to
overcome, just to get to the point where any positive economic growth may be recorded.
California's Central Valley lost thousands of
oil and gas industry jobs during the downturn, where some of the impact of
those losses are also being felt in other communities throughout
the state's interior.
In Bakersfield, in Kern County, where many of the state's
oil and gas industry jobs are centered, the city's homeless shelters were forced to turn away Californians seeking shelter earlier this year
because they ran out of space to accommodate them during a short cold snap,
when having to sleep outdoors became too intolerable.
Some of the economically displaced from California's
Central Valley have migrated to where jobs are available in the state's
thriving metropolises, such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, where they've run
into the same situation of excessively high rents. Consequently, they've joined
the ranks of the employed homeless.
All these things together would appear to have set
California on a very different course than the rest of the United States. At
the very least, where the trends for homelessness are concerned.
For his part, the state's governor, Jerry Brown, refused to declare the
state's homelessness crisis to be an emergency in 2016, which denied the
state's counties and cities any additional resources to combat homelessness.
The state's data for homeless in 2017 shows the results of that decision, where
at the national level, if not for California, the trend for homelessness in the
U.S. would have improved.
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