Posted on 04/15/2024 8:35:01 PM PDT by nickcarraway
City urged to work harder to assess cost, impact
Over the past three years, San Jose has failed to consistently track the more than $300 million spent to fight homelessness and cannot adequately ensure that the money is helping to alleviate the crisis, according to a much-anticipated state audit.
The financial audit, released this week by the California State Auditor, also found that San Jose lacks clear goals for its homelessness programs and has no cohesive plan for building the affordable housing needed for its estimated 6,340 homeless residents.
“The biggest conclusion that the auditors came back with is that there’s just inadequate transparency, data and information available,” said State Sen. Dave Cortese, a Democrat representing San Jose, who requested the audit in 2022 after touring a large city encampment.
The 115-page report, which comes as public frustration continues to mount over city officials’ struggle to manage the crisis, also examined San Diego’s homelessness efforts and highlighted similar findings. It was accompanied by a broader statewide audit finding California’s lead homelessness agency hasn’t tracked most of its $24 billion in spending since 2018.
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yep
.........an astute observer suspects a grand theft scheme
involving the usual elected/appointed suspects..........
Any CEO of any American company you can name would have been removed by the Board and prosecuted for something like this. But because it’s government everyone just shrugs their shoulders and say “try to do better next time”.
It’s maddening.
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That is $47,000 per homeless person. Just give them the cash. They can live off that ok, with all the other free California stuff
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Well, excepting that it’s NOT govt’s to “give” (govt having not $.01 that didn’t come from its rightful owner/creator) & govt doesn’t SOLVE...*checks History*...ANYTHING
No kidding.
The “Looters” (I am more often calling the Deep State/Blob the “Looters” after reading “Atlas Shrugged” again for the umpteeth time.
The confluence of greed for money and power has coalesced in the Deep State, and now, I often feel there is nothing ideological, just plain greed and corruption.
The level of fraud and corruption in these “homeless programs” in the name of “compassion” is absolutely criminal.
It’s a homeless pimping industry.
Failed to consistently track...............
Cute word fail when the real one is hid or took or pocketed or kept or..................................................
Where did the City of San Jose find 300 million taxpayer dollars to lose????
Now we know where all the Biden campaign funds are coming from.
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