As someone who ran homeless shelters for the better part of a decade I can tell you, it’s not something you do if you’re looking to make big money. Aside from Los Angeles, that is.

There you can cash in big time. While many sensible homeless programs run on a shoestring and make employment and private housing goals for their charges, California leftist run programs do all they can to keep the homeless unemployed and dependent on others for most aspects of their lives. That way, liberal homeless bureaucrats can continue to ride the gravy train. After all, no homeless, no very well paid homeless administrators.

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FNC: “Amid a projected $675 million deficit in Los Angeles, city officials cashed in on their efforts to combat the swelling housing crisis in 2020, and yet homelessness grew. According to auditors at OpentheBooks, 20,000 city employees across all departments make over $150,000. The Los Angeles Housing and Community Investment Department aids people in poverty by administering Section 8 federal grants, rent stabilization policies, the housing code, and services to the homeless population. To do so, it employed some 737 people costing $55 million in 2020. Former Housing and Community Investment director, Rushmore Cervantes, who resigned in July, earned a salary of $254,937, more than former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. Carson, serving in a Cabinet-level position, was paid $199,700. Four assistant general managers with the LA department earned more than $200,000. Numbers from the city census show 40,000 were homeless within city limits in 2020, up 14.2% from the previous year. Encampment complaints to the city’s 311 number grew to almost 100,000 between Jan. 2019 and August 2020, an average of 4,500 per month.”

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“If we were in any other jurisdiction, we’d be celebrating the fact that we take that many people out of homelessness,” said LA County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, according to NPR.  “We’ve got to find ways to stem the inflow.”

But they won’t. Because the homeless, like most of us, are rational economic players and will gravitate towards the best deal they can get. California has a statewide leftist government and political consensus. It has good weather. And most importantly, the homeless programs there are mostly designed to make leftist Californians feel good about themselves by throwing cash at a behavioral issue. So for the homeless, especially those who want to leach off the system into perpetuity, what’s there not to like? And for the administrators? They like it a whole lot more.