The homeless crisis is a river of money that flows to the politically connected who have no interest in solving it, but a great deal of interest in perpetuating it. Dubious statistics, misleading reports, tax hikes and sweetheart deals are used to mobilize an institutional solution that only worsens the problem. It's a scam that runs easily into the billions while destroying lives and communities...Homelessness is a manufactured crisis that funnels money to special interests, building up a social welfare sector of the government, while subsidizing and fueling the scale and scope of the problem. - Daniel Greenfield
http://abundanthope.net/pages/True_US_History_108/The-Billion-Dollar-Homeless-Scam.shtml