URGENT: CLICK TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE LEFT!
(DC Pundit) – Leave it to New York City to spend a fortune solving a problem and somehow end up with more of it. According to the city’s own comptroller, New York spent a staggering $81,000 per person on homeless services last year. Read that number again. Eighty-one thousand dollars. Per person.
Which naturally raises a very obvious question that apparently nobody in City Hall can answer: Why do they still have a homeless crisis?
This is the maddening reality of how the Left manages — or more accurately, mismanages — America’s great cities. The homelessness industry has become exactly that: an industry. A sprawling, taxpayer-funded machine employing armies of administrators, consultants, outreach coordinators, and bureaucrats, all of whom have a deeply personal financial interest in the problem never actually getting fixed. No crisis, no paycheck.
Absolutely astounding figures from the NY state comptroller: spending on services for the NYC street homeless population ran to $81,705 per person last year, up from $28,428 pp 6yrs ago. Figures do not include all kinds of other spending, supportive housing, policing costs etc. pic.twitter.com/LmJWlNDCKC
— Miles Fisher (@higgins31411) March 16, 2026
Comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla, who has been remarkably clear-eyed on this subject, recently made this exact point while discussing Los Angeles — a city giving New York a serious run for its money in the homelessness disaster department. Carolla highlighted a jaw-dropping example of the Left’s priorities in action: when his friend Dr. Drew Pinsky, one of the country’s most recognized addiction medicine specialists, offered his professional services to the city of Los Angeles completely free of charge, the woke members of the city council turned him down flat.
This is EXACTLY why Los Angeles doesn't take its homeless crisis seriously. @adamcarolla 🎯🎯🎯 pic.twitter.com/ZbsSfHggTX
— The Adam Carolla Show (@AdamCarollaShow) March 16, 2026
A respected doctor. Free of charge. Turned away.
That tells you everything you need to know about how serious these cities are about actually solving the problem. Dr. Drew Pinsky has spent decades working with patients battling addiction — precisely the population driving so much of the homelessness crisis in major American cities.
The uncomfortable truth is that leftist-run cities do not want homelessness solved. The moment it’s solved, the gravy train stops. There is zero political incentive to eliminate a crisis that justifies billion-dollar budgets, zero accountability for results, and an endless supply of virtue signaling opportunities.
Until conservatives start winning back America’s cities, taxpayers will keep getting billed $81,000 per person for problems that only get worse every single year.
URGENT: CLICK TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE LEFT!
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