Tag: community

The Homeless in California

California has failed to adequately monitor the outcomes of its vast spending on homelessness programs, according to a state audit released earlier this month. It was reported that $20 Billion in the past five years have been spent on the homeless. Much of that money was spent on shelters and subsidizing rent. Still, homelessness grew 6% in 2023 from the year prior, to more than 180,000 people. This was reported in the Los Angeles Times on April 9, 2024.

A homeless encampment in San Francisco in 2023. (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press)

Now, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is asking L.A.’s wealthiest Angelenos for help. On Monday in her State of the City address, she unveiled a new campaign that asks business leaders, philanthropic organizations and others to donate millions of dollars to an effort to acquire buildings so they can be used as apartments for the city’s homeless population.

Clearly the programs to help the homeless have failed. More money for programs that have not worked is a waste of money. Who is asking what are the causes of homelessness? Publicly no one. Simply throwing more money at the problem in the same fruitless way will not stop this growing problem.

I do not know the answer. We do not need politicians taxing us for programs that do not work.

Hatred of Jews has Reached a New High

It’s called anti-Semitism.

Harvard President Apologizes for Congressional Testimony on Antisemitism. The president, Claudine Gay, told the campus newspaper that she “should have had the presence of mind” to answer differently.

The presidents of leading Ivy League universities seem to be in support of on campus groups calling for a genocide against all Jews.

The exchanges involving Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Dr. Gay and two other university leaders, Elizabeth Magill of the University of Pennsylvania and Sally Kornbluth of M.I.T., have thrown three of the country’s most influential colleges into turmoil. On Thursday, a House committee opened an investigation into “the learning environments” on all three campuses, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, said the three presidents should leave their posts.

When the hate reaches a fevers pitch there is one place American Jews can go and feel safe. Israel. That is the reason that even Jews who believe Israel attacks on Gaza are too much still support that country.