California Spent $24 BILLION On Homelessness And It Got WORSE!

California Spent $24 BILLION On Homelessness And It Got WORSE!
Over the past five years California has spent twenty four billion dollars trying to solve homelessness. The result? The homeless population increased by more than fifty percent. There are now one hundred eighty seven thousand people living on the streets of California. That is nearly thirty percent of all homeless people in the entire United States.
The California State Auditor just released a devastating report. The state cannot account for where most of the money went. The agency responsible for tracking outcomes stopped collecting data in 2021. Three of the five major programs have produced zero usable data on whether they actually work. And the auditor found that one third of people placed in housing programs ended up right back on the streets.
This video breaks down exactly how California spent twenty four billion dollars and made the problem worse. We cover the shocking findings from the state audit. Why the agency stopped tracking spending. How cities like San Jose and San Diego failed to account for their funds. And why the state is now cutting homelessness funding to zero dollars.

Want to verify the facts in this video? Every claim is sourced from the links below. We encourage you to read the original reports and draw your own conclusions.

"Homelessness in California: The State Must Do More to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of Its Homelessness Programs" - California State Auditor Report 2023-102.1 - https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/20...
"Audit: California fails to track its homelessness spending, outcomes" - CalMatters - https://calmatters.org/housing/homele...
"Audit finds California spent $24B on homelessness in 5 years, didn't consistently track outcomes" - CBS News - https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/...
"Despite California Spending $24 Billion On It Since 2019, Homelessness Increased. What Happened?" - Hoover Institution - https://www.hoover.org/research/despi...
"California's $20 Billion Effort to Combat Homelessness Fails to Curb Rising Unhoused Population" - KQED - https://www.kqed.org/news/11982237/ca...
"Where is California's homelessness funding going?" - CalMatters - https://calmatters.org/housing/homele...
"New homelessness data: How does California compare to the rest of the country?" - CalMatters - https://calmatters.org/housing/homele...
"Updated Jan 2025 Fact Sheet: Homelessness in California" - California Senate - https://shou.senate.ca.gov/system/fil...
"Homelessness in California" - California State Auditor Report 2023-102.2 (San Jose and San Diego) - https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/20...
"Here's how much California spends on each homeless person" - KTLA - https://ktla.com/news/california/here...
"State High-Risk Audit Program 2025" - California State Auditor - https://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/20...