Investigation reveals billions in homeless funds fuel radical activism
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For years, Americans have been told that “compassion” for the homeless means writing bigger checks; More money, more schedules, and a lot less responsibility.
We now have some answers as to why homelessness is rising even at a time when public spending has tripled..
A groundbreaking investigation called “Leaked,” backed by more than 50 pages of documents by the Capital Research Center in collaboration with the Discovery Institute, pulls back the curtain on a vast system of corruption. Reveals how billions of dollars of taxpayer funds aimed at lifting people out of homelessness are financing radical activism and anti-American political agendas, betraying both the taxpayers who fund it and the homeless people they are supposed to help.
We finally have some answers to why homelessness is rising even at a time when public spending has tripled. (Tayfun Coşkun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Despite unprecedented resources, homelessness in the United States currently remains at the highest level in U.S. history. “Infiltrated” details how the nation’s most prominent “homeless advocacy” organizations are weaponized against the people they claim to serve, channeling compassion into ideology and addiction into power.
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It reveals how radical networks quietly entrenched themselves in leading homelessness nonprofits by sharing infrastructure, donors, and ideology.
What began as a movement rooted in compassion has morphed into what can only be described as the Homeless Industrial Complex; a sprawling network fueled by the crisis that nonprofits, bureaucrats, and activists claim to solve.
They have built an empire of corruption shrouded in “evidence-based” slogans that protect politics, protect paychecks, and betray the defenseless.
The report makes clear: These networks masquerade as advocates for America’s homeless, but in reality they have become their greatest exploiters, It depends 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. Promising to “end homelessness within a decade,” HUD effectively institutionalized a policy by eliminating treatment and accountability requirements.
Conclusion? Expenditures increased. Donations increased. The results collapsed.
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The Supreme Court’s decision in Grants Pass v. The Johnson case further exposed the rot. More than 700 nonprofit organizations, which collectively received $2.9 billion in government grants, filed briefs defending public encampments and opposing enforcement of anti-camping laws as “cruel and unusual punishment.” Their concern was not compassion; was to protect the money containers.
Private foundations also participated in the crusade.
The major philanthropic giants – Ford, Robert Wood Johnson and the Gates Foundations – have poured billions of dollars 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, enabling anonymous advocacy donations that blurred the lines between charity and politics.
Meanwhile, coalitions like Funders Together to End Homelessness have poured large sums into upstream political causes, including support of reparations and anti-police movements.… all under the moral camouflage of addressing homelessness.
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Donors and taxpayers thought they were funding solutions. Instead, their money fueled lawsuits, lobbying, and ideological activism that deepened despair.
A previous report from the Center for Research on Capital, “The March Towards Violence,” revealed the deep overlap between homelessness 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 fugitives like Assata Shakur, while the Autonomous Tenants Union Network boasts of refusing to cooperate with mainstream nonprofits to preserve “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 of dollars spent, streets worse than ever, and a 77% increase in the death rate among the homeless under the banner of “justice.”
For too long, the Homeless Industrial Complex has thrived in darkness, remaining untouchable, unaccountable and unchallenged. But eventually the sunlight gets in.
A homeless person lies on the sidewalk in New York City on December 27, 2024. (Selçuk Acar/Anadolu)
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President Donald Trump’s latest executive order on homelessness marks the first significant course correction in more than a decade. The complex’s all-out resistance, including a recent lawsuit, only underscores its entrenchment and fear of being held accountable for real consequences.
But the homeless can’t wait any longer.
If compassion means anything, funding needs to be tied to measurable results, such as real reductions in homelessness. Every dollar should be used to save human lives, not to fund ideological causes.
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It is time to take compassion back from corruption by returning funds to their original purpose: restoring hope, healing, and purpose.
The light is on. The truth has been revealed. Now it’s up to us to keep the pressure on, hold the line, and never let the darkness come any closer.
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