Jonathan Choe: The homelessness nonprofit sector is a ‘cash cow’
🔴 WATCH THE FULL EPISODE:https://ept.ms/4aJbpPMShow more Much of the homelessness nonprofit industry is not in the business of actually ending homelessness, says TPUSA Frontlines and Discovery Institute investigative journalist Jonathan Choe.
Instead, he says a large portion of the sector function as a state and federally-funded multi-billion dollar “cash cow,” he says.
And the space has been infiltrated by Antifa members who actually want to perpetuate homelessness—to discredit capitalism, Choe says. Show less
It's been ignored for so long that we've now been able to show the counter narrative, right?
For example, I worked in corporate media for 20 plus years.
And whenever we would cover homelessness on the streets, it would be during Thanksgiving.
We'd go to the shelters of the people volunteering at the soup kitchens, and we would all feel good.
But nobody would get into the root causes.
So the few outlets that did cover this crisis would be sort of the more left-leaning NPRs of the world.
And when they brought their experts on, the experts would always say when they would be asked, how do you solve homelessness?
What are the root causes?
They would always say, build more housing.
But what they would never get into was the other side.
And that's the research Discovery Institute has been bringing now to the national conversation.
The root causes, the data clearly now shows it's drug addiction, mental illness, and broken relationships.
Unfortunately, a lot of the public policy has not been able to address those three issues.
So, of course, it takes time to affect change, even as there's these changes in policy or rules that are being implemented from the HUD side of things.
You said that the nonprofits are concerned or they're trying to pivot very quickly.
They're pushing back.
Oh, they're pushing back.
Absolutely.
So they're saying they don't want the policy.
They want to stick with what was before.
Of course, because they're making billions of dollars.
Their cash cow is about to be crippled and disrupted.
Well, I mean, couldn't they just do the new thing and also take the money?
They could, but behind a lot of this is a dangerous far-left ideology.
And that's the piece that a lot of people have not been able to get into.
We've looked into it, and what I found in my own personal reporting is that you have the far-left progressives who have been captured almost by a religion, and that has infiltrated and seeped into the homeless nonprofit space.
And this is what I talked about, getting back to the White House roundtable.
Out of my 12 colleagues who've covered Antifa on the front lines and the protests, and I've done that as well, what we brought was a joint study with Capital Research Center and Discovery Institute, and we presented that to the Trump administration.
And part of that data and research showed that there was an intersection between Antifa violent militants and the homeless nonprofit space.
In other words, a lot of the Antifa folks, when they weren't trashing the streets, their day jobs would be in the nonprofit homelessness space.
So a lot of their ideas to bring communism, Marxism, to destabilize America to usher in a brand new communist revolution.
That's part of the homeless industrial complex now.
And that's what we called out.
Fascinating.
So just how big is this overlap?
It's hard to quantify, to answer, to be perfectly blunt.
It's there.
It's in pockets.
It's in places like San Francisco, but especially in places like Portland and Seattle, again, where I have personally reported, I'm connected to pretty much everybody in the homeless outreach space.
And these homeless outreach workers during sweeps, when they're trying to get these men and women into shelter, you have Antifa members who are essentially blocking them and preventing the homeless from being taken into housing, essentially.
Basically, you're kind of telling me here that the homeless have been unwittingly employed as tools in the revolution or something.