TOWNHALL | Published December 29, 2024
Joe Biden has put this nation through hell. We had a baby formula shortage, part of the general supply chain fiasco that his administration seemed incapable of understanding or fixing. Working families were shredded by inflation, and the border crisis has created a trail of sexual abuse, rape, and murder. We have nearly 500,000 children who are missing, likely sold into sex slavery. And this intentional disregard for border security has contributed to another domestic black eye for Joe Biden: rising homelessness (via NYT):
“Homelessness soared to the highest level on record this year, driven by forces that included a surge in migrants seeking asylum, a national housing crisis and the end of pandemic-era measures to protect the needy, the federal government reported on Friday.
The number of people experiencing homelessness topped 770,000, an increase of more than 18 percent over last year and the largest annual increase since the count began in 2007. Nearly every category of unhoused people grew, with the rise especially steep among children and people in families.
The report, released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, showed that homelessness had risen by a third in the past two years, after years of only modest fluctuations. The agency blamed factors such as “our worsening national affordable-housing crisis,” inflation and the end of certain aid programs from the pandemic.
But federal officials on a call with reporters placed special emphasis on the rise in asylum-seeking migrants who overwhelmed the shelter systems where much of the increase occurred. “
‘Hobo Joe’ is what we should call him. Of course, the media must include the loss of COVID-era protections, but we know the hordes of illegal aliens were the real accelerant, plus the fact that Biden made everyone poorer over the past four years. All his clown can do is tell us we’re wrong while pointing to some trash pie chart created by equally incompetent staff at the various agencies this man has let run without guidance. Oh, and they did this, and it ended up pushing people towards voting for Trump since its peak condescension.
Joe Biden made us poorer, plunged the world into chaos, and created legions of homeless people, but at least Hunter Biden got his pardon.
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SOURCE: www.townhall.com
RELATED: So Much for Compassion: Homelessness Skyrocketed Under Biden, Democrats
REDSTATE | Published December 29, 2024
Aren’t the Democrats supposed to be the compassionate ones? The ones who care about the unfortunate, the downtrodden, the castoffs of society? Aren’t the Democrats the ones who claim to want to help?
Well, it appears that this depends on how you define “help.” Because homelessness has skyrocketed under Democrats and the Biden administration, particularly in the last year.
“No American should face homelessness, and the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring every family has access to the affordable, safe, and quality housing they deserve,” HUD Agency Head Adrianne Todman claimed in a statement.
Nine out of the 10 states with the highest rate of homelessness were states run by Democrats.
California and New York have the largest populations of homeless people in the country and their homelessness rate (48 per 10,000 in CA and 81 per 10,000 in NY) is significantly higher than the U.S. national average (23 per 10,000).
Almost all, yes, under Democrat jurisdictions. Granted, California has other things to attract the indigent, like a climate that largely precludes freezing to death on the sidewalk. The same can’t be said for places like Minneapolis or even Anchorage, which, yes, has its homeless population and routinely loses some of them to the weather every winter. But why this sudden explosion when these deep-blue cities and states have been deep-blue for some time?
In a phrase: Illegal immigration.
Robert Greenway, Director at the Allison Center for National Security at the Heritage Foundation, posted on X: “The Biden administration’s policies allowing millions of illegal immigrants into our country and provided them shelter has turned its back on the citizens they are responsible for.”
Millions have poured into the country under Joe Biden. Many of them are now living in hotels and apartment buildings, their rents paid by American taxpayers, while Americans are on the streets. What housing isn’t occupied is more expensive because of this influx; supply and demand being a harsh and inscrutable mistress.
There are other problems. Homelessness is all too often a result, not a cause – a result of addiction, alcoholism, or mental illness. The legacy media love to bombard us with images of an innocent young mother, down on her luck, sleeping in her car with her three children, but that’s not the face of homelessness in the United States nearly so much as is the addict or lunatic (or both) shooting up on the sidewalk and then dropping a deuce in front of some business’s entry.
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SOURCE: www.redstate.com
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