{"id":21558,"date":"2019-06-06T15:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T19:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21558"},"modified":"2019-06-06T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T19:23:32","slug":"california-homeless-population-soars-as-california-officials-fight-hud-regulations-to-free-up-public-housing-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/06\/06\/california-homeless-population-soars-as-california-officials-fight-hud-regulations-to-free-up-public-housing-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"California Homeless Population Soars, As California Officials Fight HUD Regulations To Free-Up Public Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced in April that it was in the process of drafting new regulations<\/a> to bar illegal aliens from public housing, the reactions from pro-illegal alien politicians were, predictably, shrieks of moral outrage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCruel,\u201d cried Los Angeles Congresswoman<\/a> Maxine Waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMean-spirited,\u201d howled San Diego Congressman Juan Vargas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cXenophobic,\u201d charged Judith Goldiner of the Legal Aid Society<\/a>, adding, \u201cThis latest attack on immigrant families is an effort to strip them of the fundamental human right to housing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many other voices at the federal, state, and local level\nchimed in with similar sentiments, before finally running out of adjectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, when news broke on Tuesday that homelessness in Los Angeles County<\/a> jumped by 12 percent over the same time last year, and 16 percent in the city of Los Angeles, the best long-time County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas could muster was \u201cstunned,\u201d as in \u201cwe are pretty well stunned by this data.\u201d On the other hand, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was described by the Los Angeles Times as \u201cmore upbeat\u201d about the news, for reasons the Times neglects to mention. An estimated 59,000 people countywide are homeless, with 36,000 of them camped out on the \u201cupbeat\u201d mayor\u2019s streets. And this was after a new sales tax that was supposed to solve the homeless problem kicked in last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the bad news. Los Angeles actually fared pretty well compared to other Southern California counties, or San Francisco which saw a 17 percent increase in its homeless population<\/a> and a 45 percent growth in the number of people who are living in vehicles (which may explain Mayor Garcetti\u2019s cheery disposition).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pro-illegal alien advocates are bemoaning the fact that people\nwith no right to be in the country will now be denied what they call \u201cthe\nfundamental right to housing\u201d (at the expense of American taxpayers \u2013 they\ndon\u2019t mention that part). But what they aren\u2019t taking into account is that many\nAmericans, including veterans and families with children are denied public\nhousing \u2013 because illegal aliens are occupying available units. And none of\nthem seem to think that it is mean-spirited and cruel to provide public housing\nto trespassing foreign nationals while forcing citizen families and veterans to\nsleep on the streets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor do any of these politicians seem to give much thought to\nthe impact of the ongoing border crisis that is funneling a hundred thousand\nnew migrants a month into American communities, most of whom lack the\nwherewithal to pay for basic necessities like food and housing, will have on\nthe homelessness crisis. Homelessness, like immigration, is a complex issue\nthat defies simple solutions. But that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t, or shouldn\u2019t take\nlogical steps like barring illegal aliens from public housing and deterring\nstill more from crossing our borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barring illegal aliens from public housing, as HUD is\nattempting to do, won\u2019t solve the homelessness problem in California, any more\nthan the new sales tax did. But freeing up tens of thousands of taxpayer\nsubsidized units will help somewhat, at least. And that\u2019s a good start. Otherwise,\nlike Mayor Garcetti, we can all just learn to be upbeat because at least where\nwe are isn\u2019t as bad as San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced in April that it was in the process of drafting new regulations to bar illegal aliens from public housing, the reactions from pro-illegal alien politicians were, predictably, shrieks of moral outrage. \u201cCruel,\u201d cried Los Angeles Congresswoman Maxine Waters. \u201cMean-spirited,\u201d howled San Diego Congressman Juan<\/p>\n

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