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As a result of centuries of governments’ systemic failures driven by corruption, the world faces social and environmental calamities on unprecedented levels unlike any other time recorded in history.
Corruption has infested and spread across the world like a deadly plague, infecting the very governing institutions trusted by citizens to provide, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Despite over 160 States throughout the world partied to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), numerous countries severely impacted by poverty, famine, and war, which are rich in natural resources to abolish or alleviate these, have failed to do so because the governments have fallen into corruption. [9] [10]
“The World Bank estimates international bribery exceeds US $1.5 trillion annually, or 2% of global GDP and ten times more than total global aid funds. [11]
Other estimates are higher at 2-5% of global GDP.” [12]
As a proximate cause of Corruption, and in its aftermath, war, death, sickness, poverty, and homelessness have spread across the world.
These adversely affect billions of societies’ most vulnerable citizens, grossly and recklessly disregarding their lives and their basic human rights and needs.
As the wealthiest (the top 1%) enjoy a perpetual corrupt and inhumane carousel ride of luxury off the suffering and misery of billions of the world’s most vulnerable citizens (the impoverished), human rights have and continue to be grossly violated, and the masses are enslaved to sickness and poverty.
When we look at our nation with all its riches, it makes one wonder if the adage “the rich get rich & the poor get poorer” rings a sadistic oppressive truth to it.
Could it be that the largest scheme and abuse in world history among most governments is keeping their citizens impoverished, oppressed, and suffering as a vehicle for the rich to profit off their misery?
In the United States, the homeless industry has grown 3.1% per year on average over the five years between 2018 and 2023.
The market size for community housing and homeless shelters is $19.6 billion for 2023 (SOURCE).
Taxpayers spent more than $17 billion on housing for the homeless alone in 2021 (SOURCE).
There are 11,379 Community Housing & Homeless Shelters businesses in the US as of 2023, an increase of 1.8% from 2022 (SOURCE).
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic along with the ongoing war in Ukraine, over 160 million people have been dragged down into poverty (SOURCE).
In addition, over 34 million people find themselves undernourished, including 1 in 8 children (SOURCE).
Globally, 663 million people are undernourished (8.9% of the world’s population) (SOURCE).
Inequality is greatly inflated, as billionaires’ wealth ballooned by $3.9 trillion from March 18 to December 31, 2020, whereas the number of people living on less than $5.50 per day may have increased by 500 million (SOURCE).
A large majority of our nation’s, state, federal and private contributory funding to prevent and alleviate homelessness, have for the most part, been prematurely created, granted, misappropriated, and abused.
This is evident, not only in the fact that these issues still plague communities, but from recorded raw financial data associated with homelessness in poverty-stricken communities.
Despite Washington creating the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) consisting of 19 federal agencies and delivering the program Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness 2010, supported with a Presidential promise (SOURCE), homelessness has become an epidemic.
Since the enactment of the McKinney-Vento Act (homeless/low-income assistance?) in 1987 and President Obama’s Opening Doors Program in 2010, $623.3 billion has potentially been spent toward efforts of homeless prevention and elimination.
If United States homeless counts are off by 50% (SOURCE), worldwide counts of homeless individuals may also be off by 50% (yielding 225 million).
Despite potentially having 873,750 homeless individuals in the United States, there has only state (New York) that has recognized the right to shelter (SOURCE) and only one President in history (Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944), made efforts to make housing a right. (SOURCE)
On average each year, United States taxpayers pay out around $31,056 to criminalize one homeless person (SOURCE) (est. 873,750people as of 2022, accounting for a potential 50% undercount in recorded values) - this works out to a $27.1 BILLION INDUSTRY to provide and/or maintain homelessness services.
Estimating about 157.5 million taxpayers in the US as of 2020 (SOURCE), this means everyone pays roughly $172.06 PER PERSON, PER YEAR!
The US national deficit for fiscal year 2022 is $1.38 trillion. (SOURCE)
Utilizing 3D Rapid Printing Building Design, WinSun (a company who possesses 151 international patents and a current $1.5 billion dollar deal with Saudi Arabia) built a five-story building and a 1,100 square meter villa in Shanghai miraculously in only two weeks for the cost of $161,000. Utilizing 3D Rapid Printing Building Design, WinSun (a company who possesses 151 international patents and a current $1.5 billion dollar deal with Saudi Arabia) built a five-story building and a 1,100 square meter villa in Shanghai miraculously in only two weeks for the cost of $161,000. (SOURCE)
Evidence suggests that WinSun technology can print houses for the cost of $4,800 (SOURCE).
For Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, President Joe Biden proposed $8.732 billion (about $27 per person in the US) to be targeted toward homelessness assistance programs (SOURCE).
The total amount of money set aside per year towards efforts on preventing and ending homelessness could have provided 1,819,167 3D-printed homes to homeless individuals.
If the national deficit was money which was able to be utilized, it would yield a total of 287 million homes able to be 3D-printed and made available to homeless individuals and families worldwide.
This would leave almost half available for others whose homes are inadequate for humane living.
Persecuted, harassed, criminalized, and fined for being homeless, millions of homeless humans are treated as less than animals and go without shelter, although many state and/or city ordinances provide shelter for stray animals.
In one comprehensive report, author Andrew Huff found the deprivation of shelter as cruel and unusual punishment. (SOURCE)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly, states that depriving one of shelter meets the criteria of torture. (SOURCE)
HOMELESSNESS
Globally, there are an estimated 150 million people (the total population of United Kingdom and France combined) who are homeless. (SOURCE)
Over 100 million children are said to be homeless globally, though this number could be higher as the number of homeless individuals varies widely from country to country or isn't tallied at all. (SOURCE)
As different countries have a myriad of definitions for homelessness, countless families and individuals are not accounted for throughout the world.
Due to these inconsistencies, the counts given may be vastly under what the true value is.
Worldwide, more than 28 million children (about the population of Texas) are homeless due to bloody conflicts, with that same amount having to leave their homes in pursuit of better lives. (SOURCE)
In America (the land of the free and home of the brave), there are an estimated 582,500 victims (less than 1% higher than 2020, the last fully completed PIT Count) (SOURCE), including children and veterans, who are homeless.
There are reports that state this number could be up to ten times higher.
Overall, it is stated that 24.5 million Americans have been homeless at some point in their life (7.4% of the total population).
Also, it is said that six out of every ten Americans are one paycheck away from homelessness.
Camping in public places is prohibited in 72% of America’s cities, and half ban sleeping in public in general. Six of ten cities restrict vehicle habitation.
(SOURCE).
It is estimated that between 17,000 and 40,000 homeless people die per year, with many going uncounted (SOURCE).
According to ‘Homeless Deaths Count’, a minimum of 20 homeless people die each day.
“At least 20 people experiencing homelessness
die every single day in America. They die in cars, tents,
shelters, and in the streets.
Almost all of these deaths are preventable.”
-Homeless Deaths Count (SOURCE)
The Homeless Population of the U.S. is slightly under the population of South Dakota or the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.
The homeless population of the US is slightly less than the population of South Dakota (SOURCE), or a little more than the city of Jacksonville (SOURCE).
The number of homeless in the US is just over the population of Comoros (SOURCE).
POVERTY
Almost half of the world’s population (4.2 billion, equating to approximately the population of China, India and the United States combined) live in poverty as of 2022.
Globally, an estimated 8.5% of people (682 million) live in extreme poverty, defined as living on less than $2.15 per day. 1.8 billion people subsist on $3.65 a day, 23% of the global population. (SOURCE)
Three hundred eighty-five million children live in poverty, and over 22,000 children die daily around the world due to poverty.
3.1 million innocent children (almost the populations of Mongolia or Armenia) worldwide die from starvation, an appalling rate of 8,500 per day (SOURCE).
In the US, 37.9 million people are enslaved to poverty as of 2021, about .005% of the world’s population. This yields a poverty rate of 11.6%. (SOURCE)
The United States poverty population amount is a little less than California’s general population. (SOURCE)
According to the UN, more than 4 years’ worth of progress toward eliminating poverty has been erased due to COVID-19 (SOURCE)
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