Boomers Own Half of U.S. Wealth. So Why Are We Seeing More Homeless Boomers? | WSJ

I don't belong to ANY church and as PRIVATE organizations I don't give a damn what they do with their money. Our government is beyond corrupt and and rob us daily.

But I get it. Your faith in government is complete and you will support them no matter what they do.

 

Hobo's man

(Houseless Boomers)

 

Good point.

Texas spends $22k to house a lot of mentally unstable homeless people who would otherwise be homeless but with more access, if they so chose, to mental health care in liberal Cali.

Not only does Texas (its taxpayers) foot that 22k, a good chunk of it goes to corporations as profit. Everyone wins!

 

2 posts ago you said people don't have money to give to Christian organizations. Are you that unhinged?

 

Sounds like Texas is definitely a wee bit better eh

 

This is fantasy land

 

Your feelings once again is fantasy land ...but the fact is The median income for individuals in the United States is $48,060 per 2023- California actually spends closer to $50,000 per homeless person upon further review , just a tad OVER than the average of every American earns per year -for what California spends on the homeless it's literally MORE than what a typical income is for a typical American- California has really nothing to show for it- that's sad
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisc...five-years-didnt-consistently-track-outcomes/


Despite the roughly billions of dollars spent on more than 30 homeless and housing programs during the 2018-2023 fiscal years, California doesn't have reliable data needed to fully understand why the problem didn't improve in many cities, according to state auditor's report.


Under the $3.6-billion program that converts hotel and motel rooms, which is a linchpin in Newsom's homelessness plan, the average cost of a room is at least 2.5 times cheaper than building a new home, the audit found. The housing assistance program, which has received $760 million over the past five years, gives an average of $12,000 to $22,000, depending on which county, to help a low-income family stay in their home. That's a fraction of the roughly $50,000 the state spends on a person once they become homeless.

The remaining three programs, which have received a total of $9.4 billion since 2020, couldn't be evaluated due to a lack of data.

Democratic state Sen. Dave Cortese, who requested the audit last year after touring a large homeless encampment in San Jose, said the report depicts "a data desert" and shows an unsettling lack of transparency at every level.

 

Yep.
Greed Meets Selfishness Meets Lack of Empathy

Rocket River

 

No Social Security jobs - HOW IS THIS A THING AT ALL?
Medical Emergencies - WHY DON'T WE HAVE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE
CORPORATE HOUSING - buying houses to just price gouge and rent out

I think California Regulations and Graft
-- What is substandard housing to homeless people? The regulations make the cost to house them more expensive than it needs to be . . . in my opinion. Look at my dorm room in college
It was Non Air Conditioned hovel . . I paid 600$ a semester to basically store my stuff there
(nah I lived there but AC was a major thing)
I'm not saying put them in any ole thing but maybe we should look at some more lenient housing requirements.

and Honestly I think alot of the money is just stolen

Rocket River

 

I've seen this first hand but the problem with building affordable housing is there are too many onerous regulations and also a lot of NIMBY attitudes. This is especially strong in the Bay Area where you have older liberals who brought properties in the 60's and 70's who while they in the abstract support affordable housing strongly resent developments in their neighborhoods.

 

In that sense I will agree with you as I noted in my above post about older home owners. That said CA has a lot of very wealthy Gen X and because the big tech boom happened under Gen X that is one of the big reasons why property values are so high.

 

warrants repeating

for the most part, it has been the Gen X who are moving & bidding up the prices of homes,
the most inexpensive option for boomers, who bought their homes in teh 60s/70s, is to not to move.​

 

As a Gen X I would like to believe that but my younger associates have disabused me of that notion.

 

Lolollol that’s funny….

Pretty sure not lying is one your Ten Commandments…. You fake Christians sure don’t like that Jesus part of the Bible…. Or the Ten Commandments when it’s not convenient

 

Tax the churches…

Tax the super wealthy…

Reform entitlements.

 

You start finding out that talking about how you saw the Pixies and Sonic Youth at the Warfield in 1992 doesn't impress people as much as it once did.

I can agree with a lot of that.

 

The one area I agree with is that we should have universal healthcare. I guess that's the one area I'm liberal on if any. Good point