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A New Report
Highlights the
Shocking Racial Disparity Among
L.A.’s Homeless Population
Racist housing policy is at the root L.A.’s current crisis
By
Black people make up
only 8 percent of L.A. County’s population, but 42 percent of homeless
Angelenos are black—a disparity that has been fueled by decades’ worth of
systemic racism and discrimination, according to a new report from the New York Times.
In the analysis, the paper examined how the criminal justice
system, the history of redlining, and modern-day housing discrimination have
contributed to the fragmentation of black communities in the city, fueling
displacement and resulting in tens of thousands of black people losing their
homes. More than 60,000 black Angelenos experienced homelessness this year,
according to the report.
South L.A., once the epicenter of black life in the city, has been
ravaged by the housing crisis, with about 50 percent of the area’s black
households experiencing severe rent burdens. In the ’50s and ’60s, many black
families were restricted to neighborhoods like Crenshaw, Watts, and South Park
due to the racist practice of redlining, which marked certain areas as “undesirable”
for real estate investments and prevented those families from getting homes.
Later, as the cost of housing rose and more Latino residents moved
into the area, many black residents left, leaving only the poorest families
behind. While redlining was banned by the Fair Homes Act of 1968, racial
discrimination in the city’s real estate market continues, with black
homeownership falling 36 percent from 44 percent over the past 50 years.
Disparities in the criminal justice system have also contributed
to the cycle of black homelessness. Only 6 percent of California’s population
is black, as opposed to 30 percent of its prison population. Having a criminal
records can make it far more difficult for an individual to find jobs and
housing once they are released from jail.
“There is probably no more single significant factor than
incarceration in terms of elevating somebody’s prospects of homelessness,”
former Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority director Peter Lynn told the Times.
Currently, L.A. is scrambling to house the more than 44,000 people
who sleep on its streets each night. The report is a sobering reminder that it
will take more than just new housing to fix the problem—it will take a
concerted effort to address the systemic racism that created it in the first
place.
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
JOHN BINDER
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.
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.
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