- Phoenix’s homeless population has swelled above 7,500 amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
- Hundreds of those people are now living in a large tent city set up in the downtown area
- The tent city features limited running water and inhabitants are packed in tightly together, increasing their risk of contracting the coroanvirus
- Before the pandemic, nearly 600,000 Americans were estimated to be homeless; experts say that number could explode
- More than 162,000 Americans have been evicted in 27 cities since the pandemic began, according to Princeton University’s Eviction Lab
- Homeless advocates say the federal government must step in, and estimate another $11.5 billion is needed
- New funding for the homeless is not included in a $900-billion pandemic relief package
Andrew Court for Daily Mail and Reuters – Dec 23, 2020
Tent cities are expanding across the United States as experts warn that the ongoing pandemic could lead to a ‘catastrophic’ homeless crisis where hundreds of thousands more Americans are living on the streets.
Officials in Phoenix, Arizona have cleared two large parking lots in the Bender neighborhood to accommodate for the city’s exploding number of homeless people.
More than 7,500 people are without permanent shelter in Phoenix, according to Reuters, who visited the tent city, which is dubbed ‘The Zone’ by some of its inhabitants.
There, hundreds of homeless people are packed together. Many people do not wear masks, and some count a sleeping bag or a tarp as their only worldly possession.
Although the city has posted portable toilets and washing stations along the perimeter of the encampment, health protocols like handwashing are difficult and the risks of contracting COVID-19 is exponentially increased.
Feces and garbage are also littered among the tent city, which is located just a short distance from Phoenix’s ritzy restaurants and luxury apartment buildings.
Officials in Phoenix, Arizona have cleared two large parking lots in the Bender neighborhood to accommodate for the city’s exploding number of homeless people.
Phoenix is just one example of a slow-motion disaster unfolding in many large US cities as homeless numbers, already growing in recent years, spike during the global coronavirus pandemic.
In 2019, before the pandemic hit, there were close to 600,000 Americans who were homeless. That number has surely surged in the past twelve months, although experts have been unable to pinpoint the exact number.
Since COVID-19 reached the US in January, however, more than 162,000 evictions have been filed in 27 cities tracked by the Princeton University Eviction Lab.
With cities facing a steep hit to their tax bases due to lockdowns aimed at curbing the virus’s spread, homeless advocates say the federal government must step in, and estimate another $11.5 billion is needed immediately.
New funding for the homeless is not included in a $900-billion pandemic relief package passed by Congress on Monday. The fate of the bill has been thrown up in the air after outgoing President Donald Trump threatened not to sign it.
Meanwhile, the $4 billion provided earlier this year through the March CARES Act bailout and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development is running out.
‘It’s not just the pandemic, it’s the financial fallout from the pandemic and the complete lack of a comprehensive response to the pandemic from the federal government,’ Diane Yentel, who advised the transition team of President-elect Joe Biden, told Reuters.
Biden’s transition team did not respond to requests for comment. But fixing the affordable housing crisis was a pillar of his campaign platform, and included a pledge to spend $640 billion over 10 years to create affordable housing and ‘end’ homelessness.
‘Addressing homelessness remains the most pressing health equity challenge of our time. And it´s about to get worse,’ Dr. Howard K. Koh, a professor of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told the news agency.
As the coronavirus began to ravage the United States in the spring of 2020, federal, state and local governments issued temporary bans on many evictions, with an eye on the economic and health consequences of increased homelessness.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in September followed up with a nationwide ban that the stimulus deal would extend to January 31.
So far, Congress has no clear plan to deal with the expiration of the CDC’s ban, when up to 40 million people will be at risk of eviction, according to the Aspen Institute.
Overnight, more than $70 billion will be owed in back rent and utilities, according to Moody´s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi.
The health repercussions of homeless are horrifying – particularly amid the ongoing pandemic.
A study by the Coaltion for the Homeless found that those living on the streets of New York City die of COVID at a rate 78 percent higher than the general population, according to the Coalition for the Homeless.
In Los Angeles, several members of the city council want the city to use the convention center as a homeless shelter. San Diego already did that – and now its convention center is suffering a COVID-19 outbreak, with 190 residents and staff testing positive.
Another homeless shelter in Chicago is reeling from an outbreak just as freezing temperatures fuel demand.
One resident of Phoenix’s tent city told Reuters she feels helpless and doesn’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.
‘I can’t even get online’ to apply for jobs because the libraries are closed,’ the resident stated, adding that without a computer and an address she will not receive a stimulus check.
‘I didn’t think my life could get any worse,’ she stated.
Palestine the land of Jesus birth and his miracles is being systematically destroyed and his people killed off, the jews are taking advantage of this covid scam to demolish hundreds or houses they then take the bank accounts of the palestinians to pay for the demolition,
what are christians doing ? nothing.
Just as the AID’s virus was patented by Bio-Lytton laboratories
and bore the name of Henry Kissenger, himself a homosexual
so the covid virus patent is owned by Bill Gates.
He owns the WHO and the FDA, Rothschild and their Rockefeller subsidiaries are expected to really clean up over this pandemic.
The 1929 Depression in which millions starved to death in the UK and USA
was said to be a practice run for this, but evidence from insider whistleblowers
claim that was to be the biggie, the 1918 Spanish flu was jewish germ warfare
to be rolled out again in the 1929 depression, but a certain Mr Hitler spoilt things by locking up the Rothschilds in prison and sharing their ill gotten gains with his people.
The jewish run countries of Rusia UK and America put aside their differences until Germany was destroyed, how dare they take their money back like this ?
The Rothschild favourite Mrs Thatcher also decimated British heavy industry and closed all small industry by imposing heavy VAT taxes, she was stopped by her own government from bringing in the depression we are now seeing
Americans have to lose their homes ad go hungry as israel is taking all their money
jews there mostly dont work they have luxury homes with wad gardens and swimming pools
all on US money, the 9/11 scam was the biggest since the bolocaust or the titanic
they think americans should be happy they robbed them
With conditions like that it’s not the coronavirus flu they need to worry about but other serious conditions that break out amongst squalor. Like cholera. It’s been driven underground but not eliminated altogether and just needs the right conditions to reappear and thrive. So many millions of Americans will soon be poor, hungry and homeless that even ancient diseases like leprosy could gain a foothold.
The third world has had time to battle these conditions as well as receiving aid from western agencies to contain them, but the US is about to be cast into a melting pot of abject poverty for the first time. The Great Depression may seem like a flat pay day in comparison.
Simple really? Confiscate all of President Trump`s financial assets, and spend it on providing new housing for the US homeless.
Gerry Donnelly. gerrydonnll@yahoo.co.uk
” even the very hovels they live in will we take from them ”
QUOTE lord victor rothschild
And still the immigrants come. We, in the U.K. are going to have the same situation very soon. How much longer can we put up with seeing our fellow countrymen abused?
If I went through that tent city trying to enlist the wretched inhabitants into a vagabond army to march off to take the fight to their oppressors, I’d bet only a small fraction of them would actually get off their asses and do it. I’d also bet that the overwhelming majority of the wretches never bothered to learn a marketable skill or earn a reasonable level of education. I’m sorry to say, this fraud of a plandemic aside, I’m certain most of the people there set themselves up for failure and misery well in advance, while some are surely casualties of the economic warfare of the plandemic.
That being said, and some of that in the paragraph above may sound cruel but the truth isn’t typically soft and fluffy, we are looking at one of the stages of the “new normal” planned and implemented by the Jew World Order oligarchs and ruling class. Their actions have shown the plan is to treat EVERYONE (other than themselves and their own, of course) like complete and total xxxx, completely disposable, barely even slave status. The citizens who aren’t yet “living” in tents and cardboard boxes had better open their eyes and recognize that’s the plan for them as well. The obscenely avaricious Jews, oligarchs, and tyrants want, demand really, ownership of everything. They want to take EVERYTHING you have, including whatever shred of freedom and dignity that may remain, and throw you into slave status if you have a skill to offer or throw you into mass graves if they can’t suck anything else of value from you.
As for the fears of infection and disease running rampant through the tent city, they’re at much great risk of contracting typhus, dysentery, or the sexually transmitted sort rather than some overly-hyped covid-1984, of course.
You’d better recognize, identify, and take a stand and literally fight your oppressors while you still can.
Make no mistake about it the snakes know very well what they are doing. It is their intention to disenfranchise people then they can put them in all those camps they have been building. How can people allow themselves to be herded into a tent because these devils have locked them down ruined their businesses caused job losses without a murmur. I cant get my head around it.
I but these soul sellers cant believe their luck at how easy it has all been for them. They had no respect for the human race before they have zilch respect for us now. I am just gob smacked at how easy it has been for them to destroy on mass.
If white gentiles are stupid/insane enough to fight a war (WW2) so a cabal of monopolist Jews can rule all goy nations of the world, then you fought for your own indigence, subjugation & ultimate demise.
We have Jew religions ancient and modern, so here are the tents and palm trees. Only camels needed to complete the picture.
While the Amerikan Goyim suffer horribly at the hands of the Jewish controlled media pumping the Covid hoax, the Congressional whores are sending even more money to the Jews who live on welfare in Israel, they have homes but the Amerikan people do not.
Then Congress cuts the checks to ordinary Joes from $1200 to $600, but they have funds to send whopping ten million dollars to Pakistan for transgender studies.
Really people, the entire Congress needs to hang by the rope until dead, and I say string them up right down Pennsylvania Avenue, every god damned one of them.
And let us not forget this Orange faced Yellow haired Buffoon Trump who just pardoned Blackwater mercs found guilty of murder in Iraq, yet Assange and Snowden get no pardon. Screw Trump and string him up too!
And if we are having a hanging party, how about stringing up the entire Biden pedo family which committed Treason by selling influence to China.
In fact wouldn’t is just be great if a rogue nuke took out the entire District of Criminals ZIONIST WHORE HOUSE?
Like that marines motto says, kill them all and let god sort them out.
How is it possible that covid is responsible for exploding homeless population when there has been a ban on evictions since March. Another lie that no one seems to question.
I like how the comments have just steam-rollered Christmas. Mine ended abruptly when I objected to the sound-track of a chimpanzee leading the charge against a foreign chimp he wanted to eat. Them idiots said it was James Brown.
Its not the pandemic which puts people into tent cities its the country being robbed by the jews
This is not news. Tent cities, homelessness, living in cars, vans, & RVs have been a normal part of US life.
‘Nomadland’ film will be released on the 21st February 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa0UoXr4iuk