Subsidizing homelessness creates more of it

 Jack Dumphy:

L.A.’s Homeless Racket

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 Encampments to homes, you say, Mr. Bonin? Then what is your plan for people who, like the fellow interviewed in this news report, say they have no intention of leaving their seaside tents? The man had been offered housing before, he tells the reporter, but found it “unacceptable.” He went on to say how he objects to the pesky rules imposed by homeless shelters. “I’d rather stay here,” he says.

And why wouldn’t he? His necessities are paid for the taxpayers, some of whom pay millions to live in a place where they can look out their windows to see him living for free. And what the government doesn’t provide is delivered by the myriad “homeless outreach” programs that, no matter how much they receive in government grants and charitable donations, always plead for more because the “crisis” is always getting worse. The city’s budget for various homeless programs in the coming fiscal year comes to an astounding $791 million. 

“We spend so much on the homeless,” Mike Bonin and his ilk say, “we can’t understand why there are still so many of them.”

You want more homelessness, subsidize it.  You want less, tax it.  Charge them rent for sleeping on the siodewalk.  If they do no tpay evict them.