“The Democrats had abandoned their working-class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
Tucker reveals the most pressing question for Americans about the border crisis
Tens of thousands face eviction, social misery in Missouri with lifting of moratorium
The expiry of the US federal eviction moratorium will affect great numbers of people. According to the US Census Bureau, the number of adult renters behind on their rent at the end of August stood at more than 10 million, about 1 in 7 renters. The Census Bureau’s weekly Household Pulse Survey for the week ending August 26 found that 3.5 million respondents were facing the “likelihood” of eviction in the next two months.
Moreover, the ending of the national moratorium has led cities to end their own local restrictions. Localities in the state of Missouri are no exception.
The eviction ban in St. Louis, the second largest city in the state, has now been lifted. The city says it will offer temporary clinics to help those who cannot afford rent. Mayor Tishaura Jones, a Democrat, stated that, as of the end of August, 200 people have received help from these clinics. As of mid-August, there were 3,000 pending eviction court cases in the city of St. Louis alone. There were a combined 13,000 pending eviction cases for the metropolitan areas of St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri’s largest city.
Local housing advocates tell of their clients experiencing panic attacks due to the slow disbursement of federal relief funding. According to St. Louis Public Radio, the city of St. Louis has distributed $2.2 million in assistance out of an allotment of $8 million. St. Louis County has distributed $8.4 million out of a total of $26.6 million. Any money not distributed by September 30 will be returned to the federal government.
Robert Swearingen, an attorney for St. Louis-based Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, told the Associated Press, “My clientele is really low income, so I’m dealing with people living on Social Security between $600 and $1,000 a month, and they have a hard time finding an apartment that is livable.” Kennard Williams of Action St. Louis warned that evictees have trouble finding new housing. “The eviction wave is going to overwhelm the resources and infrastructure that we have,” he said. “A lot of people don’t have a plan, and with the way evictions work, once you have an eviction on your record, a lot of landlords will bar you from living on their property.”
The lifting of the eviction ban will further contribute to the social misery of wide layers of the population in Missouri, a process assisted by the political establishment.
The additional $300 weekly pandemic-related federal unemployment benefit was rejected in Missouri in June by Governor Mike Parson. Cole County Circuit Court Judge Jon Beetem affirmed Parson’s decision, denying the reinstatement or back-payment of the benefits on August 31.
“Instead of being comfortable where we should have been, now we’re struggling to keep our head above water,” Kimberly Newby-Dorsey of Kearney, near Kansas City, told KSHB. She has been unemployed since the beginning of the pandemic. Newby-Dorsey recounted how she recently received a shutoff notice from her water company: “Not only can I not pay it, but I’m negative almost $40 in my bank account because I had to fill up my car with gas so I could take my son with a broken leg to his doctor appointments weekly.”
Despite the cutoff of federal benefits, small businesses and larger firms alike in Missouri are having trouble filling positions. This is attributed to fears of COVID-19 in the workplace, as well as the poverty wages. On August 20, KMOV News reported that many childcare centers in the St. Louis area are having trouble finding new staff. Faith Academy Executive Director Kristin Skebo told KMOV, “This can be a very rewarding job but it’s no secret that it’s a difficult job and the way that the job market is, people have a lot of choices.” Some parents are being put on waitlists for their children to be accepted into these facilities. Holly Fantasia Shadows, mother of an infant boy, said, “It’s been really difficult trying to find any kind of childcare, I sat on my lunch last week crying, calling. I think I called 17 daycares before I found somebody.”
Missouri Jobs with Justice (MOJwJ), who unsuccessfully sued the state of Missouri to get back-pay for workers affected by the early cutoff of pandemic benefits, reiterated that much of the current unemployment crisis comes from people avoiding jobs that would expose them to COVID. “There are people who have health conditions, either their own or their immediate family, that make returning to work dangerous,” said MOJwJ Policy Director Richard von Glahn.
In regard to Governor Parson’s claim that ending the benefits was an incentive for the unemployed to find work, von Glahn added, “This is not about supporting families getting back to work, getting the economy back going again, you don’t block money from your economy if that’s what you’re trying to do.” Despite many businesses suffering from a lack of employees, even if the homeless take these jobs, poverty wages mean they will still be unable to afford housing, food and other expenses.
The pandemic has undercut the ability of organizations and individuals to serve homeless people. KSHB published a story on the efforts to assist a group of unhoused people at the Sterling Avenue underpass underneath a stretch of Interstate 70 in Kansas City. Teri Glor, one of the people living at the underpass, said, “It was either I hit the streets or my nephews hit the streets and I didn’t want them on the street. It’s real difficult, people look at you weird, they think they’re better than you and you explain to them that everybody has a story.” She has been homeless off and on for the past 11 years.
Springfield-based nonprofit Community Partnership of the Ozarks released data revealing that there are 750 individuals and 440 households currently homeless in Springfield, out of a population of 168,000.
According to KMOV, a downtown St. Louis City homeless encampment at Interco Plaza was torn down September 3. About 50 people were living at the camp when Mayor Jones said it was being shut down due to “safety issues.” A fatal shooting occurred August 29, though it was not blamed on the camp residents.
The former residents were shuttled to nearby shelters, but their troubles will continue until they are provided with permanent and affordable housing. The camp residents fear the bonds they’ve formed with each other will be broken with the razing of the camp. “This is my family, man, we’re family here, for real, this is all we got,” said Antoine Hunt, who lived at the encampment for six weeks. “We don’t want people coming in here and pulling us apart.”
Construction of Single-Family Houses Fell Again in August
Homebuilders in the U.S. broke ground on new projects at a faster than expected pace in August—although construction of single-family homes slowed for the second consecutive month.
Many of the housing officials in the Biden administration regard single-family housing as detrimental to the climate and racial equity. They are developing plans to make it relatively more costly to maintain single-family zoning and construction new single-family homes compared with apartments and attached homes.
Homebuilders started construction at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.62 million in August, a 3.9 percent increase from the previous month, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Economists had forecast a one percent gain from the preliminary July figure.
Both June and July’s figures were revised higher. Compared with a year ago, housing starts were up 17.4 percent.
The growth in August came in the multifamily segment. Projects with five or more units jumped 21.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 530,000. The building of apartments and condos has been rising but has lagged behind single-family homes as s demand shifted away from city centers scourged by rising murders, closed shopping districts, anti-police rioting, and a rise in urban blight. The August pace, however, is the fastest since January 2020, which was the fastest pace since the mid-1980s.
Compared with August 2020, multifamily starts are up 60 percent.
The pace of single-family construction fell to an annual rate of 1.076 million from 1.107 million, a 2.8 percent decline. Building single-family homes exploded higher in the fall of 2020 but peaked in December of that year. It has since then been choppy month to month but at a higher level than prepandemic. Compared with August 2020, when the pandemic shift to suburbs was underway, single-family projects are up 5.2 percent.
Permitting, which is a forward-looking indicator of expected demand for housing, jumped six percent from July, also driven by a rise in apartments and condos.
As a share of total construction, single-family is now back to recent but prepandemic levels.
Here’s a very long-term chart of the market share of single-family house building.
THREE PIG LYING LAWYERS. BIDEN, MAYORKAS
AND KAMALA HARRIS
Tucker reveals the most pressing question for Americans about the border crisis
Los Angeles Is Squandering $1.2 Billion While Homeless Face a ‘Spiral of Death’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRVYI_fAHHs
The Homeless Crisis of Los Angeles : Exploring Skid Row
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s70osRSxZdA
A Homeless Village Is Growing on Apple’s Silicon Valley Property
According to recent reports, a growing homeless encampment has been set up on dozens of acres of undeveloped land in the heart of Silicon Valley owned by tech giant Apple.
VICE News reports that despite Apple committing billions of dollars to fix California’s housing crisis, an encampment of homeless people living in RVs, shacks, and tents has taken over dozens of acres of undeveloped land owned by Apple in the center of Silicon Valley.
Between 30 to 100 homeless people have reportedly set up camp on the property owned by Apple in North San Jose. The area covers about 55 acres according to the local CBS affiliate KPIX. Some current residents of the site say that they feel they can be left alone there, despite the area’s proximity to PayPal’s corporate headquarters and other office buildings.
Before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, around 6,000 homeless people lived in San Jose with fewer than 1,000 beds available to them. It’s common for homeless people living outdoors and in vehicles across the Bay Area to be moved from place to place by security and police, those staying on the Apple property have largely been left alone according to Renee Corona who has lived in an RV on the property for nearly two years.
Corona, who receives disability payments but cannot afford to live in San Francisco where she was raised, stated: “This is an area where you’re secluded from the city. I don’t think a lot of people knew about this.” She added: “I’m grateful that they don’t kick us out. I just want to say thank you. They don’t bother us.”
San Jose City Council member David Cohen, whose district includes the property, told VICE News that his office is trying to schedule a meeting with Apple to discuss the site. “We’re setting up a meeting so that I can begin to talk to them about what we might be able to do to help the people who are living there, and to figure out some plan for offering services,” Cohen said.
Read more at VICE News here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
THESE VIDEOS SHOULD CONVINCE ANYONE OF THE DANGERS OF LETTING THE DEMOCRAT PARTY RUN THE COUNTRY.... INTO THE GROUND!
Walking Tour of Downtown Seattle in May 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZAFbj-918A
Searching for Hope: Homeless in Sacramento
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL5MROuIaGU
Inflation is Surging as Wages are Falling - People are Unprepared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu9Ad7Y3SZE
Is Los Angeles the worst run city in America - Homeless Update
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYZoWWBc4s&t=3s
Homeless Woman Doesn't Drink or Use Drugs. In a Tent for 8 Years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kNDhSl_IyE
Homeless Woman Has a Masters in Mathematics and Engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT3VGI0V5Rs
What are you Spending Money On? - Prices Skyrocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TWlhnCmvws
The Economy is like a Bad Magic Trick - Full of Smoke and Mirrors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUKpeXiB2U&t=37s
MacArthur Park Is a Complete Wreck - Hollywood Homeless Breakdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Yl97OypH0&t=32s
Chaos by the Bay: The Truth About Homelessness in San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw8MACDZ3RI
City of Roses or City of Homeless? Portland's human tragedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcZvD7lKZto
Meet the Homeless Americans Living in Walmart Parking Lots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1AWLo_fK1U
Living on the brink: One family’s struggle to survive the pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y92ubHU_AS8
Feeding a family on a food stamp budget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXKkakwf6Vk
This is life on $7.50 an hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SCB1t28nDU
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.
According to a report in the Washington Times:
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
BY MASOOMA HAQ
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.
Mayorkas: ‘Don’t Think We Expected the Rapidity’ of Migrant Surge
During a portion of an interview aired on Monday’s “NBC Nightly News,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said DHS didn’t expect “the rapidity of the increase” of migrants that took place in Del Rio.
NBC News Correspondent Morgan Chesky asked Mayorkas if there were enough resources in place to handle the surge of migrants.
Mayorkas responded, “I don’t think we expected the rapidity of the increase that occurred.”
He also defended the deportations of Haitians saying, “We are realistic about the human tragedy of this. But we have a responsibility, not only to the well-being of the migrants themselves, but the well-being of the local communities and the American public.”
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