What Budget Crisis?
Conehead (and Fata$$) keep claiming there is no money, even as they continue to raise taxes and blame Washington DC for their spending problems.
Then Conehead announces this late last week:
Chicago officials unveiled a plan they say would effectively end homelessness in the city, even as questions over leadership changes and unclear funding streams cast early uncertainty over how the plan will be implemented.
The five-year blueprint features data, recommendations and insight into how the city might address the issue of homelessness. It contains seven pillars to address – emergency services, housing, health, education, employment, community cohesion and systems alignment.
Improvements to homelessness services have already been in progress according to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, but the blueprint will provide guidance for initiatives. The report says it aims to effectively end homelessness, based on a framework called Functional Zero.
Sendy Soto, Chicago chief homelessness officer, was appointed to the position by the mayor in 2023 to lead efforts creating the five-year plan. Her departure from the position was announced by Johnson early this week.
So the person nominally "in charge" of this effort just left.
And TheCenterSquare points out there is no actual funding stream to fund the entire plan.
For a city....
- that can't maintain 60% of its CFD Tower Ladders,
- is seven years into a "consent decree" can't adequately man Districts or supervisory positions,
- burned through $400 million for ILLEGAL ALIENS,
- and won't fix potholes that exploded across the city following the usual freeze/thaw cycle of March
.... is going to end homelessness. This Functional Zero would seem to describe Conehead's entire administrative staffs' brainpower.
Color us skeptical.
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posted by SCC at 12:07 AM
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And when the plan doesn't work in 5 years, who is getting fired, and where do I send my application for my refund on the portion of taxes spent on the failed program?
It contains seven pillars to address – emergency services, housing, health, education, employment, community cohesion and systems alignment.
In other words, bigger government...
Planet zero is more like it
Perhaps free rides on Amtak trains to sunny southern California and then put them up in hotels for a month. Then after that.. it's California's problem.
The budgetary playbook of democrats is one gigantic failure. It can’t help, but be that.
Zero (0) is the absence of quantity.
Thus, functional zero is the absence of function.
Cut spending on illegals and free up probably over a billion dollars. Do not admit them into our schools to drain education as a second language expenses. Cut Conehead's security detail by over 100 unneeded officers. That would be a good start.
Fixing tower ladders is far more important than funding illegal aliens.
One more step towards bankruptcy.
CPD pension first, SCC. After that, they can man the Tower Ladders with homeless illegal aliens. Priorities.
Haven’t we all seen enough homelessness scams across the country🧐🧐🧐
We have had a serious homelessness problem throughout the mayoral tenures of Lightfoot and Johnson with both campaigning to fix the problem. Johnson has had 4 years and now he has a plan ...of course he does it's election season. Oh and by the way, retired 2 years and after 30 years I have never seen a homeless black or white person given the privilege of camping out for months at a police station until a housing solution was found for them however I did see it provided for thousands of migrants. Oh and it was a sight to see how the city of Chicago was able to partner with so many organizations to supply endless meals, pillows, blankets, showers, clothes...well I'll just leave it at that.
Article in the Trib stating how difficult it is for this clown to get anything from Springfield. So what does the genius do he hires John Arena to be his lobbyist in the capital. As you would expect he fucked everything up just like he did when he was the alderman. EVERYONE in Springfield hates him just like here. Some things never change.
The "Plan" is based on three S's..Spend, Spend and Spend. This coming from an idiot who had a budget problem in his own household.
DemoRats own "Homelessness"! Comes from reckless spending, unbalanced budgets, and increased taxes..DemoRats have put citizens in this position..this isn't the end of homelessness is just the beginning.
It’s always a five year plan with these communist
What this shows is that Brandon Johnson has nothing positive to talk about at any press conference!
Look Crime is up! CPD is losing manpower! And the youths are taking over the streets again! CFD cannot get equipment repaired! And all Johnson can talk about is taking care of Homeless persons? Thats only after he starts firing his Deputy Mayors to conserve money and hide what they were really doing?
Wake up people! This mayor has sold you a bill of goods and he cannot pay the bills…….when the families of victims murdered in Chicago are being blown off by this mayor. You knew they are just hiding the truth?
It took this person two years to come up with a plan and then before it was implemented she leaves? How does that make any sense at all. Did they prepare a budget? Do they have a revenue source? Sounds like more unicorns and rainbows with no real solutions. I got an idea why don’t we close like 20% of the CPS schools that have ridiculously low enrollment and sell them off to non profits to house the homeless? Schools and staff off the books and homeless off the streets.
Bingo!
Conehead has a huge chunk of spam planted in his head between his ears. He has no deductive reasoning skills and just continues to create more problems.
That’s why Sendy Soto departed from the program now; so when it fails she’ll be safely tucked into her new grift.
This coming from a delusional idiot, who can’t even pay his own bills. Just like his girl that used taxpayer money through the Chicago teachers Union, Stacy Gates, another one who don’t pay her bills, but yet makes incredible amounts of money, fiscally irresponsible and how do you say it mentally retarded. He could save billions of dollars by closing under utilized indoctrination centers known as the Chicago public schools, but he’s getting paid off too much money obviously
Don't give the homeless a thing Nothing. Zip Zilch. Nada. Zero.
Get the f out and don't come back.
Stop feeding that black hole.
no more aliens, no more bullshit. no more details for Mayors, or other scheisters.
Focus on Police and Fire protection. Effective transportation - no more bike lanes, crazies on the CTA, burnouts in intersections.
Demand excellence in education.
you know, everything that Republicans stand for so it'll never fucking happen, Chicago's in a death spiral get out while you can.
There has always been some level of homelessness in Chicago of course, given the size of the city, but to my mind, the population began to absolutely explode around 2012. Growing up here, you were used to seeing a bum camped out in the doorway of a closed business, etc., but nothing at all like the shantytowns which began to pop up under seemingly every viaduct & expressway hillside around that time, in all neighborhoods.
10 years later, with the big migrant influx, the Venezuelans just tacked on to what already existed of this skid row tent culture, and here we are (Safe-T Act also partly to blame - how many of these bums would've simply been at County 20 years ago?).
This massive increase in homelessness was, I believe, initiated by the policies of Rahm Emmanuel, especially his forced closure of 50% of the city's mental health clinics. I know public spending on the poor is not a popular thing among the SCC readership, but, damn... I'd rather be throwing some dollars down for city insane asylums, keeping crazies on their meds & as productive members of society (or at least off of the street), then live in a ever-filthier place that's starting to look like Rio de Janeiro - without the tropical weather.
Recently read an article- can’t remember which blue city it was about though- that had placed hundreds of “unhoused individuals” into homes, only to have the majority leave them to go back to the streets in mere months. Would expect the same to happen here, but the budget will remain with many new city employees (Dems) remaining on the taxpayers expense.
You have a few hundred that were bused in from Denver.
Catholic charities have stolen billions
The way to end homelessness is to quit funding it.
Just get out when you can……
I have been attending evening adult education classes to become a homelessness specialist. Have been hearing the job opportunities are endless.
191 years - January 01, 1835 - since the US was last reported DEBT FREE.
If mayor 19th nervous breakdowns intention was to get elected, and systematically tear apart every single part of city government, and then leave the city in an underfunded dysfunctional state of chaos, then his administration has been a resounding success.
Functional Zero ? I love how politicians name plans after themselves. Self adoration.
If the city isn't going to maintain the tower ladders then the illegals should be housed in the uppers floors in the most fire prone areas of the city.
Matthew 26:11 Biblical quote: "the poor you will always have with you" but Conehead and Lard Ass will have it fixed, they say.
Once they approve this "millionare tax" all problems are solved. They open up the constutition to ammend for this millionare tax, while they are in there, they decide to get rid of the pension protection clauses. How do we get them to open up the constitution? Well, we raise the property taxes in areas that will vote and are easily manipulated. Then we put this millionare tax on a referendum ballot, will probably say something like " should millionaires be required to pay additional income tax to relieve property taxes. Keep it simple keep it vague, like always. Not knowing nor understanding the full proposal, they all vote yes. Then we open the constitution up and the thievery goes on, while we all sit back and kiss that pension goodbye. Notice former Gov. QUINN has recently been pitching adds for this.
'Programs' for the 'unhoused' are the latest in a series of progressive grifts on taxpayers. The first being the still very active 'exoneration' projects, with outside legal council always recommending large settlements while banking billable hours to the taxpayers. And one of them is now looking for ways to sue the city over CPD-ICE "collusion".
The next is the violence interrupter initiatives, which have spawned numerous 'non-profits', most of which are little more than 2-5 individuals with hi-vis vests, and are not accountable for results.
Big taxes starting January 1, 2027
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17RjjSjHpW/
I thought it was $600 Million On the migrant stuff
also bad, but OT:
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_43e82950-8e30-46cb-b5b1-70dece20136c.html
Supreme Court declines to hear CCW on mass transit case,
After working with the homeless or unhoused for years, I can tell you that most of them are drug addicts or mental cases. The only way this " problem" will be solved is for the state to go back to building institutions where they are committed by a judge. In many cases the unhoused will refuse to go to government shelters.
Seen many shaking cups for loose change and then hop into a Cadillac fuck them all it’s their choice
Joy Brown posted a notice to hire h-1B visa holders at hq. Now get those sworn back on the streets.
LA- $300 million on the homeless, their Mayor Bass proudly touted, however over 40% of the housed have now gone back to the streets. And the Palisades homes are still unbuilt, after the fires. 🔥
What budget crisis? There are 6,963 taxing bodies in Cook County alone according to the Illinois Policy Institute. Taxes, fees, compliance costs, and fines of all colors allow for misappropriation of plentiful public funds and an incremental increase in any of the mandated government collection techniques provide greater financial sustenance glossing over government's colossal waste, graft and inefficiency. Sounds like another financial money making opportunity for those in charge cloaked in "homelessness."
Democrats scream at the top of their lungs "Affordability, Affordability" propaganda but overlook the direct impact of their wasteful corrupt government revenue collection and spending practices which results in difficulties putting food on the table for taxpaying Americans, making private home ownership out of the question financially, "disappearing" working people's discretionary monies, making personal savings or retirement savings unattainable, and subjugating the working class to a paycheck to paycheck miserable existence. You can't get blood from a turnip. One check away from homelessness, despair, and government solutions giving praises to the rescuing democrat party who broke them down in the first place. Lunchbox Joes non-binary 9 to 5 Janes must accept last resort government savior cheese, get in the long line for great depression soup along with accompanying taxpayer subsidized food giveaways, and capitulate swallowing one's pride for government assisted housing/living.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-ranks-first-in-the-nation-in-number-of-local-taxing-bodies/
California spent 24 billion dollars on homelessness in the last five years. There is an estimated 171K homeless in California. Lots off compassionate N.G.Os and non profits cashing in in this state which faces bankruptcy. Lots of administrators given themselves pay raises. And California's very own homeless accountability commission gave themselves raises after failing to provide an accounting for public monies. Coming to the Windy City soon. Homelessness, Solentra green energy, global warming initiatives, and Somali child daycare have been cash cows for democrats in power who have access to generous public funding mechanisms.
How much money is actually spent on homelessness? Goals and objectives success stories with real world common sense solutions? Financial audits? Accountability? Results? Effectiveness of the programs to reduce future homelessness ?
Mayor Conehead be a stupid ugly fool. He in a meltdown. Off to da horsitral.
It's called money laundering. Invent all these fake programs, staff them with connected patronage employees enjoying six-figure salaries and all the vendors who will gladly kickback money to the mayor and aldermen.
This is the truth I saw working for the CPD for 30 years. The homeless are mentally ill and refuse help. There has to be a clear path to legal commitment.
Wasn't Matthew a tax collector?
There is a budget crisis. We are so understaffed that I already hit the medical. I will see you guys in the fall. Cheers!
The voices in my head are much better now that I take the pills. I like the voices now, and they like me. They tell me to call something the Fuuunctional Zeeero Plan. I don't know what that is but, but it sounds good and the voices like it. What was that? Oh yeah, Fire Dept ladders are bad. You can fall off and hurt yourself. The voices are right. Ladders are bad. No ladders for them.
Bring it on! Then Conehead will have to open the books! That should be enough to send him to the loony bin permanently!
The city cannot tell us what they currently spend on the unhoused and they out out a blueprint with no cost estimate. This blue print is a total waste of time and money.
And enforce laws already on the books, lakefront and parks close at 11pm.No tents on sidewalks. No sleeping overnight on CTA.If you lock them up, 90 percent will relocate to another city.Any belongings left in parks or public way should be thrown in garbage.Problem solved. You’re welcome Brandon. Signed, a kindergarten student.
That is a great idea. Put them on trains to California!!!
First step towards balancing the municipal budget: eliminate the 150-officer personal protection squadron for Mayor Conehead, and eliminate all other bodyguard assignments for all other city officials and former mayors. Why is a near-bankrupt city still providing bodyguard service to Daley, Emmanuel, and Lightfoot? Why does Mrs Conehead need a committee of city-paid errand-runners? Only when city officials are compelled to experience the exact same grubbiness as we mere peasants, the perks of office banished, will we even have a smidgen of opportunity for city to responsibly address the basic municipal services so badly lacking here.
not unhoused, HOMELESS. Piss bums.
I like the way you think! -GREAT idea!
Illinois seems to be very much like some other leftist blue states. Millions upon millions going to private organizations where most of the money goes for salaries and benefits and just disappears. No accountability, no reports of results.
Then governor Jim Edgar was the one who began closing down the mental health institutions to balance the budget. This was the beginning of the rise in homelessness. The only mental services are now at a hospital and they release them the next day because they have no place to send them.
If MBJ actually cared about the city, he would do exactly that! CPS schools are regularly cited for building code violations, often serious ones. Trying to keep the beasts running (preserve CTU jobs?), soaks up $$$ for no real benefit. EXCEPT closing schools seems to be the ultimate third rail, politically. He would rather bankrupt the city than risk losing re-election.
The majority of homeless people are homeless because they want to be homeless. They don’t want to deal with a job and rent and bills, nor do they want to live by the rules set forth by shelters and other outreach programs. So this is another bullshit crusade that will line the pockets of the connected with taxpayer money that is desperately needed elsewhere.
DEI administrators allow cad to have broken equipment, allow Cpd to be short over 2000 police officers because Chicago is safe. average 1.25 murders a day, yet his family has 150 bodyguards. where are the black activists, fake reverends calling for his resignation?
There was a study, either in California or New York and after all the money they spent 40% of those helped returned to homelessness
I wish a Psychiatrist would get a commitment order and keep him!
An idiot that doesn't pay his own water bill has no business being the Mayor of a big city!
Is the end to homlessness coming before or after reparations are paid?
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