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Talbot County Sheriff’s Department Video Highlight Bills That May Assure Small Eastern Shore Towns Will See Influx Of Homeless
The homeless problem in the United States, the State of Maryland, and even in our counties is overwhelming.
The numbers show over 500,000 homeless people in the U.S. Each year in Maryland, over 5,000 people experience homelessness. This information comes from the following:
How The Homelessness Problem In Maryland Compares To Other States | Across Maryland, MD Patch
The causes of homelessness are varied.
Causes of homelessness in America include:
- Poverty
- Rent price increases
- Substance abuse and addiction
- Mental illness
- Unemployment
- Lack of affordable housing
- Limited access to critical healthcare
- Mass incarceration
- Low wages
- Segregation and rental housing discrimination
It is a difficult problem to solve, particularly when you add the fact that money that could go to helping solve the problem of homelessness has been misdirected to illegal immigrants:
This August 2024 Press Release from the Biden DHS highlights the funding priority problem:
Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), announced the allocation of over $380 million through the Shelter and Services Program (SSP). Through the SSP, DHS directly supports communities that are providing critical support such as food, shelter, clothing, acute medical care, and transportation to noncitizens recently released from DHS custody and awaiting their immigration court proceedings. FEMA, in coordination with CBP, is administering these SSP grants with state, local and tribal governments as well as nongovernmental organizations to help prevent the overcrowding of short-term CBP holding facilities. This funding augments the $259.13 million in SSP grants that DHS distributed in April 2024.
Seems like the Biden Administration didn’t want to solve the homeless problem.
But, as is typical with our government, particularly in Maryland, politicians create a solution that is so ridiculous that it is almost beyond belief. See the explanation from the Talbot County Sheriff’s Department of what HB 487 and SB 484 could mean to Talbot County, Maryland and other jurisdictions:
As you listen to Sheriff Gamble, you may think this can’t happen. But, here are the two bills that would allow this. They are on the floor of the Maryland Legislature right now:
Some have said that this bill is intended to “spread the wealth (i.e. burden) of the homeless from big cities and counties to smaller, more rural counties by assuring that the homeless can come to these areas, set up their camps, and not be bothered. This may gain support for more funding for the homeless from the Federal government.
Others have said it’s just another “feel good” bill that doesn’t address the problem of homelessness but just gives the sponsors of the bill “virtue signaling’ points.
I’m imagining what our small towns will look like if this bill is passed. It won’t be good. Even those members of the community who want to help the homeless will NOT want them in their public parks and open areas.
If anyone is interested in these bills and others in the Legislature, go to https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/
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