Trump, Carson reject California's request for federal help on homelessness

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

At the same time that President Donald Trump and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson are promising federal action to intervene in homelessness in California, they're rejecting requests from local officials for help and escalating the blame game between the federal government and the state.

California Gov. Newsom and local leaders. including mayors of the state's 13 largest cities. wrote to Trump this week to ask for more federal funds to expand programs like housing vouchers that help people get off the street into stable living situations.

“We can all agree that homelessness is a national crisis decades in the making that demands action at every level of government – local, state, and federal. In California, state and local governments have ramped up action to lift families out of poverty by investing in behavioral health, affordable housing, and other homeless programs,” they wrote. “In contrast, your Administration has proposed significant cuts to public housing and programs like the Community Development Block Grant.”

"Your letter seeks federal dollars for California from hardworking American taxpayers but fails to admin that your State and local policies have played a major role in the current crisis," Sec. Carson wrote in a letter responding to the leaders. "If California's homeless population had held in line with overall population trends, America's homeless rate would have decreased. Instead, the opposite has happened, as California's unsheltered homelessness population has skyrocketed as a result of the State's over-regulated housing market, its inefficient allocation of resources, and its policies that have weakened law enforcement."

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-carson-reject-californias-request-federal-homelessness/story?id=65699983&cid=clicksource_4380645_null_hero_hed

[SWBTATTReg]

1. I got a feeling that the repugs in CA are now extinct...nt

[pwb]

2. Do the poor in red Republican states need it more?

Republican opposite world.

[Newest Reality]

3. Oh,

Gee. I thought it was the free market and good old capitalism that was universally assuring that there will be high rents, exorbitant property values and little to no groundbreaking on affordable housing now or in the near future along with a large number of new jobs being part-time, low wage, no benefit positions that don't even allow for sustenance living these days for massive numbers of people.

Oh, sorry. I guess I was way off there since that is not the official position. Oh, so, yeah, ah, drugs, poor choices, criminals, mental illness, prestige, whatever. Why do so many people choose to be homeless, huh?

I have get my dig in here: Carson is probably the most useless idiot I have ever seen in any governmental position and I think he should do some brain surgery on himself at this point. Now, if you are looking for some fine, expensive furniture...

[The Mouth]

4. Republicans view homelessness as a choice

As they do drug addiction and homosexuality (unless, of course, it's one of *their* kids).

[lunasun]

18. +100% !

[PSPS]

5. Not even W Bush would have tolerated one of his appointees writing a letter like that.

[hedda_foil]

7. W was one thing. Trump doubtless told Carson to write the letter.

[atreides1]

20. True

But do we actually believe that Carson wrote that letter...there have been enough times when Carson couldn't put a coherent sentence together!

This smacks of the machinations of one Stephen "The Nazi" Miller, not Carson, the man who often sounds like he performed a lobotomy on himself...using a gas station bathroom mirror and a box cutter!

[Iliyah]

6. That is not surprising.

[djacq]

8. Orange Slice only came to Cali for $15 million dollars.

This reject is his middle finger on the way out.

[pangaia]

17. I don;t think so. see my post somewhere below.. SOMETHING is afoot !!!

something big and bad...

[sinkingfeeling]

9. This is just one big slam of California to please 'the base'.

[SoCalNative]

10. Too bad "the base"

doesn't seem to understand that it's California that funds their welfare checks and food stamps every month.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Yep.

[Initech]

14. "The Base" can seriously go eat a bag of rancid dog shit at this point.

They've just given us nothing but bad things since Chump got elected.

[JohnnyRingo]

12. I guess there's no homelessness or crime in Miami.

Since Trump blames the democrats for all the big city problems, I'm sure the republican mayor there has everything under control.

[Initech]

15. I've never, not once heard him mention drugs, crime, and homelessness in small towns.

Of which there is plenty.

[Initech]

13. Of course he did.

[pangaia]

16. B eware guys and gals.. this is all about something else than it appears..

--probably numerous things at different levels..
repubs are looking to destroy/take over CA for some damn good reason-- for 1 thing.. follow the money... follow the votes,, helpless segments of society, concentration camps...

fill in the blanks,,

think..
SOMEBODY here can figure this out...

[IronLionZion]

19. They're trying to argue that liberalness causes homelessness in big diverse cities

and you don't see many homeless in rural areas where trump's base lives.

They do the same with crime and other issues. They used to say it about drugs but stopped when opioids and meth became rampant in rural America.

[Paladin]

21. Yeah, none of that States' Rights shit for TODAY'S repube party! (nt)