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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This comment to the WP article suggests that lots of money is being allocated. How effectively is it being spent? I would have thought that families might be the group most able to be stabilized and most motivated to change circumstances. Perhaps not. Homeless Inc. is BIG business, how much waste, fraud, abuse and kickbacks are there in these programs? How many actually benefit/change?

"SOME’s CEO, said there is 'no portable voucher attached to this housing,' which is subsidized by the nonprofit Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness, D.C.’s main contractor for homelessness services."
Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness received $118 million in grants in 2018, 99.960% from taxpayers, and had an amazing $39 million in cash at the end of that year. SOME received 97.410% of its revenue from taxpayers.*
*Source: Form 990s[/quote]

And of course this "non-profit" got caught for massively overbilling DC taxpayers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/contractor-overbilled-district-on-homeless-spending-auditor-finds/2015/03/06/ef878932-c38c-11e4-ad5c-3b8ce89f1b89_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_36[/quote]

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