Gov. Gavin Newsom is claiming credit for finally solving homelessness.
Cities throughout California are reporting reductions in unsheltered homelessness as California succeeds in its efforts to address this national crisis. Through Governor Newsom’s support of local government efforts and state investments, California is reversing decades of inaction on homelessness.
Some of California’s largest communities are reporting substantial decreases in homelessness numbers – indicating that California’s comprehensive and strategic approach to reversing this national crisis and getting people out of encampments is working.
Is it really? Why didn’t homelessness drop from all the same programs that were being implemented for over a decade?
The answer is that there was a massive increase in homelessness in America due to Biden’s open borders. This was especially true in California.
A surge in immigration that peaked just as last year’s homeless count was taken accounted for the bulk of its historic rise reported in December, grossly inflating the picture of homelessness in America.
Because the local agencies taking the count across the country do not ask for immigration status, homeless numbers ballooned in a handful of states that took in tens of thousands of immigrants, and those states, in turn, pushed the national number to an unprecedented high of nearly 772,000.
In fact, more than three-fourths of the increase occurred in five states, among them California, that were prominent recipients of immigrants.
A truer picture of homelessness will emerge now that traffic across the Southern border has been down since last summer and tens of thousands of immigrants counted as homeless last January have left the homeless system on their own, Culhane said.
Massachusetts, Colorado and California recorded increases totaling just under 90,000, or 76% of the increase nationally.
The drop in California’s homeless population isn’t because the same worthless failed policies suddenly began working, it’s because illegal aliens are fleeing President Trump’s illegal alien crackdown.
The same crackdown that Gov. Newsom has been vocally resisting and whose results he’s now taking credit for.
“As President Trump pulls away national guard members from important work such as preventing terrorism and stopping fentanyl at our border, and instead orders them to arbitrarily rouse and bulldoze encampments —- without providing help and support to people experiencing homelessness — California is advancing a smarter strategy.”
The smarter strategy is claiming credit for Trump’s accomplishment.
