{"id":2219375,"date":"2024-04-12T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T16:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-cant-account-for-all-24-billion-spent-on-homeless-crisis-audit-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T17:01:49","slug":"california-cant-account-for-all-24-billion-spent-on-homeless-crisis-audit-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-cant-account-for-all-24-billion-spent-on-homeless-crisis-audit-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Audit Reveals California Unable to Track All $24 Billion Used for Homeless Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-cant-account-for-all-24-billion-spent-on-homeless-crisis-audit-finds%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2219375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professor-who-went-on-strike-for-social-justice-hit-with-hefty-bill-from-state-auditor\/\" title=\"Professor Who Went on Strike for Social Justice Hit with Hefty Bill from State Auditor\">state audit<\/a> \u2062found\u2062 that California\u2064 spent $24 \u200dbillion on the\u2064 homeless crisis over the past five years. \u200bHowever, \u200bthe audit revealed a lack of\u200d consistent tracking of the effectiveness of this\u200d spending. California lacks current information on the costs and\u2064 outcomes \u2064of \u200dits efforts. The state agency \u200cresponsible\u200c for homelessness has not\u2062 consistently evaluated California&#8217;s \u200defforts. \u200bThe state has about 30%\u2064 of the country&#8217;s homeless population, which continues to increase.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>California spent $24 billion on the state\u2019s homeless crisis over the past five years, but it did not consistently track whether the enormous amount of spending was making a dent in the problem, a state audit has found.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auditor.ca.gov\/reports\/2023-102.1\/index.html#section1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audit<\/a> released Tuesday found California \u201clacks current information on the ongoing costs and outcomes of its homelessness programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state\u00a0agency responsible for the issue \u201chas not consistently tracked and evaluated the State\u2019s efforts to prevent and end homelessness,\u201d the audit discovered.<\/p>\n<p>California has about 30% of the country\u2019s homeless people, and the number continues to rise.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 181,399 people were homeless in California at some point in 2023, up from 151,278 people in 2019. Last year\u2019s homeless population was a 53% jump from the 118,552 people who were homeless in 2013, according to the audit.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">Billions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">taxpayer dollars<\/a> were spent on more than 30 homeless and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lapd-declare-unlawful-assembly-at-echo-lake-park-city-moves-to-clear-out-homeless-encampments\/\" title=\"LAPD declare unlawful assembly at Echo Lake Park, city moves to clear out homeless encampments\">housing programs<\/a> between 2018 and 2023, yet California could not explain why homelessness did not improve in some cities. In some areas, homelessness has become visibly worse, notably in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">San Francisco\u2019s downtown has emptied out as drug addicts shoot up in broad daylight and tents line the streets. The city is restricted from removing tents from the streets unless it can prove it is providing shelter for each person.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">In September, Sacramento\u2019s top prosecutor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sacramentos-top-prosecutor-sues-city-over-homeless-encampments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued<\/a> the city over its homeless encampments, accusing city officials of allowing the homeless population to become a public nuisance.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThis report concludes that the state must do more to assess the cost-effectiveness of its homelessness programs,\u201d State Auditor Grant Parks wrote in a letter to Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The audit examined five state homeless programs to assess their cost-effectiveness and found that two housing-related programs were likely cost-effective. However, the audit was unable to assess the other three programs because the state failed to collect enough data.<\/p>\n<p>The audit recommended that the legislature take action to require the state\u2019s main homelessness agency to compile and publicly report the costs and results of taxpayer-funded homelessness programs.<\/p>\n<p>The California Interagency Council on Homelessness, the state agency responsible for homelessness programs, responded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-mexico-gov-michelle-lujan-grisham-used-taxpayer-dollars-to-fund-mansion-party\/\" title=\"New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham Used Taxpayer Dollars To Fund Mansion Party\">state auditor\u2019<\/a>s report, saying it \u201cgenerally agrees\u201d with the recommendations and will take \u201cappropriate measures to implement where possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the audit, California Republican leaders blasted the state\u2019s Democratic leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is standard Gavin Newsom \u2013 make a splashy announcement, waste a bunch of taxpayer money, and completely fail to deliver,\u201d California Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/california-gop-leaders-call-accountability-state-cant-account-24b-spent-homeless-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalifornians are tired of the homeless crisis, and they\u2019re even more tired of Gavin\u2019s excuses. We need results \u2013 period, full stop,\u201d Gallagher added.<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Sen. Roger Niello called the audit \u201ctroubling\u201d but criticized the audit itself for focusing heavily on shelter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one issue I had with the audit was that the focus was mostly on housing and shelter issues, which is certainly important, but really very little about actual results, getting people out of homelessness, not just into shelter,\u201d Niello <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/california-gop-leaders-call-accountability-state-cant-account-24b-spent-homeless-crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s sort of half the job, maybe not even quite half the job. And, so that was a little bit of a disappointment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent state audit found that California allocated $24 billion towards tackling the homeless crisis in the last five years. However, the audit revealed the state&#8217;s inconsistent tracking of the effectiveness of this expenditure. California lacks up-to-date data on the costs and outcomes of its efforts, raising concerns about the impact of the spending<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":2219376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1215179115.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-1215179115.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}