Because the point of all these poverty plans is graft for politicians and their friends, not actual results

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The same can be said for government agencies and programs that claim to address the global warming hysteria, education, agriculture, military preparedness, space exploration ….

The cities are no better: in 2016, LA soaked its taxpayers $1.2 billion to pay for 10,000 new units of bum housing; by 2020 only 278 units had been built, to the tune of $563,000 per apartment.

LA's Homeless Housing Now Costs More Than Some Luxury Condos

And that hasn’t improved by 2024 — quite the opposite, in fact:

LA’s latest homeless housing project, at nearly $600K a unit, opens in Skid Row

Proponents hope the first of two high-rises, dubbed Weingart Towers, will be a model to follow

According to his PR flak,

Mayor Garcetti has stepped up with our State and County partners to house thousands of our homeless neighbors at an unprecedented rate. And we will use the model we've built to house thousands more in the coming months. The Mayor will always keep pushing to create more shelter capacity, so that we can bring unhoused Angelenos indoors right now. While we do that, we must also keep our focus on building permanent supportive and affordable housing as cost-efficiently as possible .…”

Sure, the government could help young families buy their first house (not that that’s a good idea), but they can figure out a way to do that without others being taxed to pay for that assistance. On the other hand, the gentleman below has absolutely no hope of ever becoming a useful member of society, let alone a taxpayer, and therefore he’s more deserving, no?