Featured image courtesy of The 2022 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress
USICH, The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness was created in 1987 and authorized by Congress through the Homeless Assistance Act of 1987. “The USICH council consists of 19 federal agencies that help create and catalyze implementation of the Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.” (usich.gov)
According to the Biden Administration White House website, some of these agencies include AmeriCorps, Department of Agriculture, Department of Justice, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, the General Services Administration, as well as the Department of the Treasury, HUD, The Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Social Security Administration. All of these federal agencies are now working within a 2022 Biden Administration program called "ALL INside", a “Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness”.
They are partnering with state and local governments to end homelessness in “six places”. What’s interesting is that two of those “places” are California. One is Los Angeles and the other is the State of California. The other four places are Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix Metro, and Seattle. Not states, “places".
I want to know, why these six places? At least 19 federal agencies are using billions of dollars of taxpayer money. This money is removed from the incomes of all working taxpayers in the United States and all are paying into the Biden Administration, who is only focusing on six “places”, one-third of the places being California.
According to Pew Research, "30% of all taxable returns in 2020 (31 million people) making any taxable income under $100,000 per year, contributed to the 1.66 Trillion in individual income taxes paid". That’s 31 million taxpayers who are not rich and now many are barely making their own rent under current inflation costs on food, gas, housing, and necessities. They are paying income tax to a program that is focused on only six “places” in the United States. What authority does the Executive Branch have to use money granted by Congress to be re-directed towards failing programs? Wasted billions of taxpayer dollars without evidence of results, in fact evidence to the contrary in those cities.
If they have such authority because of loopholes, the American People need to shut down those loopholes through amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Ratified amendments focusing on fiscal restraints on the federal government would mean that before the Biden Administration could create a program called “ALL INside”, it would need to be passed by Congress before it could get funding. It would NEVER get funding because The People all over the nation would oppose throwing billions of dollars towards six “places” in the nation without any accountability.
One of the main reasons why this would be true is that Biden’s ALL INside “places” only represents four of the top ten states with the most homeless people in America. According to The 2022 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress, the top four states with the most homeless people are California, New York, Florida and Washington, yet New York and Florida were shunned in the Biden multi-billion dollar funding program. How is that Constitutionally sound? Every state in the nation who’s not California should sue the Biden Administration for discrimination. They take the federal funds from all state residents but discriminate against most of the states. Even the states that get funding for only one city are discriminated against. For instance, Texas’ border cities and towns get no ALL INside funding, only Dallas. Colorado gets none of this funding but Colorado residents help pay for it.
If this were truly a program to end homelessness, why does it have no accountability to prove its merits, no accountability to decide how the money is spent, no accountability for how the nineteen federal agencies spend that money, no accountability to Congress, no accountability to the The People of the United States of America, period?
The White House website is bragging about the All INside initiative spending for more than $1.5 billion in projects from the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund. In addition, The American Rescue Plan provided $5 billion on housing vouchers, $21 billion in emergency rental assistance and HUD released $486 million in grants for vouchers, but not all over the nation.
Billions of dollars going to six “places”, mostly in California from federal agencies to programs that pay for temporary fixes with no transparency about what happened after rents were paid. Did they become homeless again when the rent was due again? Did it keep people sheltered for a few months and then were back on the street again? Who knows? There’s no accountability. The biggest homeless crisis ever is still growing with tent cities all over the coasts and Mexican border states, and you’re still paying federal income taxes and seeing less bang for your buck everywhere you go. In the meantime, California gets direct federal funding in the billions for a homeless crisis that they’re mostly responsible for (171,521 reported in 2022).
This is where Convention of States comes in. We are a non-partisan, non-profit organization that seeks not to endorse any politician but to be endorsed…by you, the American Citizen. Your endorsement of Convention of States and our commitment to get 34 State Legislative chambers (both House and Senate) to pass our Resolution is the authority needed to trigger Article V in the Constitution. Convention of States will focus on only three objectives: imposing fiscal restraints on the federal government, limiting the power and jurisdiction of the federal government and term limits on federal officials, including the U.S. Congress.
Nineteen states passed, two other states are nearing being added to the list and then thirteen more needed to complete the first part of our mission: get to the Convention. The second part is the Convention itself and the third part is the ratification of proposed amendments. All proposed amendments MUST fall within our three objectives, according to our Resolution.
Endorse Convention of States now by signing our petition. Help us in Colorado to be part of the 34 states by volunteering. COS Colorado needs District Captains, Event Coordinators, and Follow Up Team Members all over the state to help support our volunteers who are already giving everything they can to make this happen.
Colorado has grown COS volunteers and education activity exponentially in the last year. It’s the times we live in that are waking people up to Convention of States. Please, take the time now and help us to coordinate and reach out to the people in our state. If they know about us, they’ll support us. Our COS Veterans Coalition coordinated a booth at the Colorado State Fair and got over 1000 petitions in eleven days! The COS booth at the Broomfield Days festival on September 23rd got over 100 petitions signed in a single day but our amazing patriots who already volunteer can’t do this without your help. We need your help to educate more people.
The federal government is insubordinate to The People of the United States of America. Convention of States is the Solution.
