Here's the 500 million untapped fund


https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/what-happened-to-austins-515m-homelessness-fundraising-initiative/

https://findinghomeatx.com/

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Finding Home ATX was a project created out of the Spring 2021 Summit to Address Unsheltered Homelessness, according to its website. The goals that came out of that summit were as follows: house 3,000 additional unsheltered people, add 1,300 new affordable housing units for people experiencing homelessness and "build a better, more effective Homelessness Response System."

To get there, the City under former Mayor Steve Adler and its partners in combatting homelessness, created an overall fundraising goal of $515 million. That included money from private donors, the City, Travis County, the state and service providers

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And, it is indeed a racket. It's the homeless industrial complex and a way to launder public money back to liberal politicians and likely voters.

They'll never solve the problem because they'd have to find other jobs

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City officials have previously given updates on the fundraising effort, but this time directed us to Finding Home ATX. Travis County pointed us to the same place. Robert Ochoa, a project manager for Finding Home ATX, sent KXAN the following, in-part:

"Finding Home ATX's long-term goal is to support provider efforts to build capacity within the system and to achieve system equilibrium (monitoring funding commitments, funding distributions, and capacity/support outcomes). Given the many changes at City Hall this year, we are still working closely with government officials toward this. There's more work to be done."

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That meaningless word salad from this Ochoa guy makes it smell like indeed a shell game is going on.

Then there is this:

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What the City of Austin is doing now

Watson and the City recently announced a splitting off of its homeless strategy division into an independent office, and a joint independent review of homeless services in the City. Finding Home ATX will be included in that review, a spokesperson for the mayor said.

According to a newsletter from the mayor, the review would include strategy evaluations, an examination of each entity's contracts related to homelessness, and an analysis of the coordination of services and delivery.

Watson said the review is expected to be completed by early next year.

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To a leftist, ever problem needs on independent office, complete with facilities and staff. Never let a crisis go without creating a wasteful bureaucracy to mis-manage it.

But wait, did Watson just say the quiet part out loud (in the very last sentence of the article)?

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"We're too often measuring progress simply by how much we're spending, not by the actual results of that spending," Watson said. "Focusing on the money may create the appearance of great effort, but it's not helping us to get ahead of the challenge."

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Finding Home ATX also said roughly $450 million has been raised so far of that $515 million, which is roughly the same number City leaders reported a year ago. That number represents direct investments into the homelessness response system donors directly fund projects and providers not a pool of money to be used.

"Even though these funds go to other entities, they are often labeled 'Finding Home ATX funds' because the use of the funds conform to the Summit 2021 goals," Finding Home ATX said.

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This part of the article states that there isn't really a pool of money of that magnitude. Part of the shell game.

Calling them homeless is a misdiagnosis .. as if the problem with most of these people is "they just need a home".

What happens when you misdiagnose? You spend a lot of time and money fixing the wrong thing and the problem just gets worse. Isn't that what we're seeing here?

He shows one at Lamar and Ben White. It was one of the biggest encampments a couple of years ago, with a boatload of tents under the overpass. Last time I was there in early January, I didn't see any there.

sleepybeagle said:

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Calling them homeless is a misdiagnosis .. as if the problem with most of these people is "they just need a home".

What happens when you misdiagnose? You spend a lot of time and money fixing the wrong thing and the problem just gets worse. Isn't that what we're seeing here?

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Because calling them homeless lacks "compassion" and we apparently should use one of the following more accurate terms to show our compassion

Persons experiencing homelessness
Unhoused persons
Underhoused persons

I also recently found out some local slang for housed persons, apparently we are "housies" and that term is used in a derogatory manner