"San Jose’s budget shows the city spent about $14 million on homelessness. Much of that money -- $12 million -- goes toward rental subsidies, administrative costs, and crafting plans for new affordable housing developments.
What’s left – about $2 million -- is directed toward running homeless shelters and providing clothing, food, and medical care to people without a home.
In Oakland, 2 Investigates found it’s much of the same. Nearly $24 million is set aside in the annual budget for homelessness issues, but only $4 million goes directly to help people living on the streets get into permanent housing.
In San Francisco, the situation is better. The city sets aside about $285 million annually for dealing with the homelessness issues, and funnels about $104 million to direct services."
In the best city of the bunch, San Francisco, only 36% of the money goes to actually helping the homeless. The rest is eaten up by overpaid government employee's and consultants who plan and plan and plan but somehow never actually do anything that helps those in need.
In Oakland only 16% of the money spent on "helping" the homeless actually ends up helping the homeless. The rest go to enrich the Democrat ruling class and their consultants.
Any charity with that sort of record would be run out of town on a rail. While there is no hard and fast rule charities that spend less than 65% of the money they raise on their actual mission are considered to be problematic.
What this shows is that when politicians demand more money for the poor they're really mostly asking for more money for government employees and consultants.
If you really want to help the homeless give money to your local St. Vincent De Paul society; they help the people who are really in need and in at least my parish their overhead is 0%; 100% of your donation helps people who are in need.
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