There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
Homelessness rose dramatically under Biden. Photo courtesy of PBS.
A new study has exposed waste and abuse in the industry that is meant to ‘end’ homelessness. It revealed that taxpayer dollars that have been earmarked for this problem have been funneled to radical left wing causes for political reasons.
It actually makes perfect sense. There are lots of people who make a ton of money fighting homelessness. Why would they want the problem to be solved? That would mean an end to their industry.
This is a reminder that progressives do not actually care about the homeless. They see them as a means to an end. A way to fund their preferred political causes.
A new study just exposed the corruption behind America’s homelessness crisis
A groundbreaking investigation, “Infiltrated” – backed by more than 50 pages of documentation from the Capital Research Center in cooperation with Discovery Institute – pulls back the curtain on a vast system of corruption. It reveals how billions in taxpayer funds intended to lift people out of homelessness have instead bankrolled radical activism and anti-American political agendas, betraying both the taxpayers who fund it and the homeless they were meant to help…
It exposes how radical networks have quietly embedded themselves within leading homelessness nonprofits, sharing infrastructure, donors and ideology.
What began as a movement rooted in compassion has metastasized into what can only be described as a Homelessness Industrial Complex – a sprawling web of nonprofits, bureaucrats and activists feeding off the very crisis they claim to solve.
They’ve built an empire of corruption draped in “evidence-based” slogans that shield politics, protect paychecks and betray the vulnerable.
The report lays it bare: these networks posture as defenders of America’s homeless, yet in truth, they have become their greatest exploiters, dependent on failure to sustain power.
Sadly, too many homeless advocates only take pride in ensuring people remain homeless. Why? Well, who wants to work themselves out of a job, especially a sweet-ass government or NGO job? Those aren’t real jobs. Real jobs require results.
But it’s not only that…
To these left-wing activists, the homeless are pawns in their political advocacy and activism. Keep them on the street; keep the money flowing, direct that money into electing Democrats.
It’s the same with the failed urban public schools and all this green energy nonsense.
Bill Essayli, a special U.S. attorney in California has begun to investigate some of this but we clearly need a national audit. These funds cannot be misused in this way.
We need to actually end homelessness in the United States, not allow the left to benefit from it politically.
Critics say inadequate recording methods may be understating the scale of the crisis
The number of homeless people in the United States has reached a record level since the federal government began tracking teh figures in 2007. According to data released this week, almost three quarters of a million people, 771,000 are homeless in America, an increase of 18% compared to 2023, marking the sharpest annual rise in decades.
The figure published by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday translates to approximately 23 out of every 10,000 people in the US. The increase follows a 12% rise in 2023, which the department attributed to skyrocketing rents and to the conclusion of pandemic assistance.
A severe lack of affordable housing nationwide is being compounded by “rising inflation, stagnating wages among middle- and lower-income households, and the persisting effects of systemic racism,” natural disasters, and an influx of migrants without access to stable housing, according to the HUD statement.
Median rent was up 20% in January 2024 from rent costs for the same month three years earlier, the National Low Income Housing Coalition wrote in March.
According to the HUD, there has been a 39% increase this year in the number of individuals in families with children who depended on shelters or slept outside. This amounts to approximately 259,000 people, the highest figure recorded since data collection began.
The report also shows that nearly 150,000 children were homeless on the targeted January night, a 33% increase from the previous year’s count. Meanwhile, the number of veterans experiencing homelessness declined by 8% from 2023.
The new homelessness figures come amid the Biden administration’s pledge to increase funding for affordable housing and expand services aimed at preventing homelessness. However, advocacy groups argue that more systemic reforms are needed, such as stronger tenant protections, rent controls, and a focus on mental health and addiction services.
The US Supreme Court ruled in June that cities may ban homeless residents from sleeping outside; more than 100 jurisdictions around the country have since taken steps in that direction, Associated Press writes.
On the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly pointed to illegal immigration as the cause of high housing costs, vowing that his plan to carry out “the largest deportation operation in American history” would lower home prices, as quoted by the New York Post. Immigration “is driving housing costs through the roof,” Trump said at a September rally in Arizona.
The latest Annual Homelessness Assessment Report, released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), reveals that homelessness across the United States has surged to record highs during the Biden-Harris administration. This is largely attributed to the ongoing housing affordability crisis. Additionally, Biden-Harris’ disastrous open southern border policies unleashed untold millions of illegal aliens, compounding the problem as Democrat-run cities are giving free hotel rooms to illegals while their own homeless populations suffer.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reports that homelessness is up 18% this year.
HUD’s report found 770,000 people were ‘experiencing homelessness’ on a single night in January 2024, an 18% jump from 2023 figures. This number does not include the nation’s entire homeless population because some stay with friends or family.
The figure follows a dramatic 12% rise in homelessness in 2023, and is the highest since the country began using the yearly point-in-time survey in 2007.
🇺🇸 While American tax money goes to foreign wars in Israel and Ukraine..
This is America!
A pandemic of poverty, homelessness, mental illness, and drug abuse.
“Migration had a particularly notable impact on family homelessness, which rose 39% from 2023-2024,” HUD wrote in the report.
HUD continued, “In the 13 communities that reported being affected by migration, family homelessness more than doubled. Whereas in the remaining 373 communities, the rise in families experiencing homelessness was less than 8%.”
Massively concerning is that 150,000 children experienced homelessness, a 33% jump in 2024 when compared to the prior year. The report does not separate the number of homeless immigrants vs. US citizens.
Robert Marbut Jr., the former executive director of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness from 2019 to 2021, told AP News the latest HUD figures over the past four years are “disgraceful.”
“We need to focus on treatment of substance use and mental illness, and bring back program requirements, like job training,” Marbut said in an email response to the media outlet.
While homelessness rose 18% in 2024, Democrat-run cities were giving free hotels to illegal immigrants.
Besides Biden-Harris importing the third world to the first world and the worsening housing affordability crisis amid the government-sparked inflation storm, HUD blamed some of the homelessness on natural disasters.
HUD’s data is nearly a year old, and both the housing affordability crisis and illegal alien invasion have persisted.
Of note, more than half of people experiencing homelessness nationwide resided in just four states: California, New York, Florida, and Washington.
Hey @BernieSanders why is homelessness so much worse in blue states with the policies you advocate versus red states with policies that encourage getting a job?
It’s not just that this story was relevant before the election and they waited, it’s that they’re back to using “homeless” instead of “unhoused.” https://t.co/0V9xn1U8Oa
All over America, our core urban areas are teeming with tent cities, hordes of homeless drug addicts, and vast throngs of newly arrived migrants that don’t have anywhere to go. When I wrote about this topic one year ago, homelessness in the U.S. was at an all-time record high, and it was increasing at the fastest pace ever recorded. It was going to be hard to top that, but somehow we did. Fast forward to today, and homelessness in the U.S. has reached another all-time record high, and it is increasing at an even faster pace. We are literally in the midst of the worst homelessness crisis that our federal government has ever measured, and there is no end in sight.
When the rest of us discuss the economic pain that we are experiencing, many on the high end of the economic spectrum wonder what all the fuss is about because things still seem pretty good to them.
But for many of those on the low end of the economic spectrum, it feels like a full-blown economic collapse has already begun.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development revealed that the homeless population in the U.S. jumped 18 percent in just one year…
Homelessness in the United States soared to the highest level on record, according to government data released Friday.
More than 770,000 people experienced homelessness in 2024, an 18% increase from 2023, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development reported. It was the largest annual increase since HUD began collecting the data in 2007 (excluding the jump from 2021 to 2022, when the agency didn’t conduct a full count due to the Covid-19 pandemic).
If homelessness is at the highest level ever and it is rising at the fastest rate ever, your economy is not okay.
Let’s just be real for a moment.
I am so sick and tired of the Biden administration and the mainstream media telling us that everything is just fine.
More than three-quarters of a million Americans are homeless, and that is just the ones that they are able to find and count.
The true number is certainly far higher.
We are being told that the spike in homelessness is happening because we don’t have enough affordable housing and because we are not able to absorb all of the migrants that have been pouring over our borders.
Migration had a particularly notable impact on family homelessness, which rose 39% from 2023 to 2024, according to the report. In the 13 communities that reported being affected by migration, family homelessness more than doubled.
When we think of the homeless, we tend to think of older men with addiction problems.
Massively concerning is that 150,000 children experienced homelessness, a 33% jump in 2024 when compared to the prior year.
What is wrong with us?
Why can’t we get this crisis under control?
Our politicians like to give speeches about affordable housing, but housing just continues to become more unaffordable…
Rents have continued climbing since briefly dipping lower during the pandemic, as well. As of 2023, nearly half of renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing, qualifying them as cost-burdened, according to the US Census Bureau.
Every day, more precious people on the low end of the economic spectrum are being evicted from their homes.
Every day, the homeless population in this country just gets even bigger.
US private sector full-time jobs have DROPPED by nearly 2 MILLION over the past year.
Such a drop has never happened outside of recessions.
The only gain in full-time jobs has been in the government sector.
We aren’t buying the propaganda any longer.
They keep trying to convince us that everything is just fine, but that clearly isn’t the truth.
When Don Lemon tried to convince a random man that he was interviewing that the economy “is actually better under Biden”, the man responded with a “hearty laugh”…
“Four years ago it was a lot better. I made a lot more money than I do now,” the man said.
Incredibly, rather than try to understand the man’s perspective, Lemon argued with him.
“I know you feel that way, but that’s not actually what the record shows,” Lemon said. “The economy is actually better under Biden.”
That prompted a hearty laugh from the interviewee.
We can see the tent cities that are popping up like mushrooms all over our major cities.
We can see the hordes of people that are sleeping in their vehicles in retail parking lots at night.
And we can see that prices at the grocery store are far, far higher than they used to be.
According to a national survey that was just released, approximately 70 percent of U.S. adults believe that the U.S. economy is in poor condition right now…
About 7 in 10 U.S. adults rate the country’s economic state as very or somewhat poor, up slightly from about 6 in 10 in October. Self-identified Democrats are primarily driving the recent negativity. About 6 in 10 Democrats described the U.S. economy as “good” in October. With Republicans on the verge of controlling the executive and legislative branches, only about half of Democrats say that now.
That same survey also discovered that about a third of all U.S. adults are either “extremely” or “very” concerned about being able to “afford groceries over the next few months”…
The new AP-NORC poll shows about one-third of Americans say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about their ability to afford groceries over the next few months. About 3 in 10 are highly worried about being able to afford holiday gifts, gas or electricity.
There are tens of millions of Americans that are barely holding on from month to month.
But for now, those on the high end of the economic spectrum are still living the high life, but it is just a matter of time before they experience severe economic pain too.
Homelessness in the United States has hit the highest level ever recorded as billions of taxpayer dollars are repeatedly shipped to foreign nations.
Despite these problems at home, the United States has sent a total of $106 billion in aid to Ukraine and about $310 billion in total economic and military assistance to Israel since its founding.
“The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) tallied more than 770,000 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2024, an 18 percent increase from 2023 that is likely an undercount,” The Hill reports.
The number of families with children experiencing homelessness also jumped 39 percent — meaning 150,000 children are out on the streets.
“Veterans were the only population where homelessness continued to decline, down 8 percent from 2023. The number of veterans experiencing homelessness has fallen 55 percent since HUD started collecting data on veteran homelessness in 2009,” the report noted.
HUD Acting Secretary Adrianne Todman released a statement about the surprising figures, saying, “No American should face homelessness, and the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring every family has access to the affordable, safe, and quality housing they deserve.”
“We at HUD deeply appreciate the work of our continuums of care and other community partners to end homelessness, especially given the challenges of 2023,” said Marion McFadden, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development. “You are critical to the success of HUD’s mission to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.”
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