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2019-09-21 Home Front: Politix

California’s Request for Federal Funding to Combat Homelessness Rejected

[AMGREATNESS] As the homelessness crisis in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, escalates, state officials requested increased federal funding to combat the issue, only to be rejected by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson
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a neurosurgeon who was under the delusion that being brilliant qualifies him to be president....
, as reported by ABC.

The request letter was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) and "mayors of the state’s 13 largest cities." The letter points out California’s recent increase in spending on welfare programs, and claims that the "[Trump] Administration has proposed significant cuts to public housing and programs like the Community Development Block Grant."

In a return letter signed by Secretary Carson, the Administration responded by pointing out that California "seeks federal dollars...from hardworking American taxpayers but fails to admit that your State and local policies have played a major role in the current crisis." Carson lists some of the state-based causes as being an "over-regulated housing market, its inefficient allocation of resources, and its policies that have weakened law enforcement."

Experts who spoke to ABC agree that "state and local policies...have led to the affordable housing shortage in California," while also admitting that simply spending more money "could take decades...to impact homelessness."

The dispute comes as President Trump has also threatened to hit California with environmental violations due to the pollution caused by the high rate of homelessness. State Democratic leaders have mostly shifted the blame onto the president with partisan attacks, further highlighting the vast political divide between the president and the heavily Democratic state.

Posted by Fred 2019-09-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 The Federal government gave them money for a bullet train that they canceled and refused to reimburse the Feds. Let them use that money. Which no longer exists, misappropriated as well.

Summary: Carson is wise to not allow corrupt, bankrupt California Dems use the homelessness as a cash cow.

Posted by Phaick Uneretle6310 2019-09-21 00:14|| 2019-09-21 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 You gotta hand it to Californians - turning sh*t in the street to gold.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-21 04:01|| 2019-09-21 04:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Give'm the small violin. When Texas was in severe drought the Obama administration rejected their request for federal disaster declaration.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-09-21 07:43|| 2019-09-21 07:43|| Front Page Top

#4 You created the problem, now you deal with it.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-09-21 12:26|| 2019-09-21 12:26|| Front Page Top

#5 No way no how. Like foreign aid to a third world kleptocracy the money will disappear after the first few "show projects". It will be farmed out to every loyal political action group and then disappear.

Posted by magpie 2019-09-21 13:49|| 2019-09-21 13:49|| Front Page Top

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