For years, Americans have been told that “compassion” for the homeless meant writing bigger and bigger checks – more money, more programs and far less responsibility.
Now we finally have some answers to why homelessness has exploded despite a tripling of government spending.
A groundbreaking investigation, “Infiltrated” – supported by more than 50 pages of documentation from the Capital Research Center in partnership with the Discovery Institute – pulls back the curtain on a vast system of corruption. It shows how billions in taxpayer dollars intended to lift people out of homelessness have instead funded radical activism and anti-American political agendas., betraying both the taxpayers who fund it and the homeless people they were meant to help.
We finally have some answers to why homelessness has exploded despite a tripling of government spending. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Despite unprecedented resources, homelessness in the United States is now at the highest level in American history. “Infiltrated” details how the nation’s most prominent homeless advocacy organizations have been weaponized against the very people they claim to serve—turning compassion into ideology and dependency into power.
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It shows how radical networks have quietly embedded themselves in leading homelessness nonprofits, sharing infrastructure, donors and ideology.
What started as a movement rooted in compassion has metastasized into what can only be described as a Homelessness Industrial Complex – a sprawling web of nonprofits, bureaucrats and activists who feed off the crisis they claim to solve.
They have built an empire of corruption, wrapped in ‘evidence-based’ slogans that protect politics, protect paychecks and betray the vulnerable.
The report lays bare: These networks act as advocates for America’s homeless, but in reality have become their biggest exploiters., dependent on the inability to maintain power.
Its origins date back to 2013, when the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) enshrined Housing First as federal doctrine. HUD pledged to “end homelessness within ten years” and eliminated treatment and accountability requirements, effectively institutionalizing a policy.
The result? Spending soared. The subsidies spread. The results collapsed.
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The Supreme Court case Grants Pass v. Johnson further exposed the rot. More than 700 nonprofits — which together collected $2.9 billion in government grants — filed a brief defending public encampments and opposing the enforcement of anti-camping laws as “cruel and unusual punishment.” Their concern wasn’t compassion – it was preserving their money pot.
Private foundations joined the crusade.
Major philanthropic giants – Ford, Robert Wood Johnson and Gates Foundations – poured billions into Housing First and equity initiatives to promote the ideology under the guise of helping the homeless.
Donor-advised funds masked the flow of money, allowing anonymous advocacy, blurring the lines between charity and politics.
Meanwhile, coalitions like Funders Together to End Homelessness have funneled vast sums of money toward political causes — including promoting reparations and anti-police movements.… all under the moral camouflage of tackling homelessness.
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Donors and taxpayers thought they were funding solutions. Instead, their money fueled lawsuits, lobbying and ideological activism that exacerbated the despair.
An earlier report from the Capital Research Center, “Marching Toward Violence,” exposed a deep overlap between homeless coalitions and extremist networks — pro-Hamas organizations, Marxist movements and anarchist collectives that share the same funders and infrastructure. Groups like the Western Regional Advocacy Project glorify violent refugees like Assata Shakur, while the Autonomous Tenants Union Network brags about rejecting collaboration with mainstream nonprofits to maintain “revolutionary independence.”
They have hijacked the language of compassion to wage a political war against law enforcement, property rights and personal responsibility.
The result is measurable and devastating: billions spent, streets worse than ever, and a 77% increase in the homeless death rate, under the banner of “justice.”
The homelessness industrial complex has thrived in darkness for too long, remaining untouchable, unaccountable and unchallenged. But the sunlight finally penetrates.
A homeless man lies on the sidewalk in New York on December 27, 2024. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu)
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President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on homelessness marks the first serious course correction in more than a decade. The complex’s all-out defiance – including a recently filed lawsuit – only underlines its entrenchment and fear of being held accountable for actual outcomes.
But the homeless can’t wait any longer.
For compassion to mean anything, funding must be linked to measurable outcomes, such as a real reduction in homelessness. Every dollar should be used to restore human lives, not to fund ideological goals.
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The time has come to reclaim compassion from corruption by returning funding to what it was intended for: restoring hope, recovery and purpose.
The light is on. The truth is known. Now it depends on us to keep the pressure, hold the line, and never let the darkness invade again.
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