I don't think so. In my experience it goes to peoples pockets. Here is why, When I first went out to New Mexico in February 2010 I was just outside of the Navajo reservation. My church was 60% Navajo. When you hopped the fence in the backyard of the parsonage you were on the rez. That said the Navajo nation was going though an epidemic of suicides. In our small community of 1900 we had 32 suicides in about 9 months. Better than half of those were teens. Fox news first began reporting on it which upset the Navajo Nation. They do not like things like that getting out as they perceive it as making them look bad. However, it got the attention of the feds and all kinds of money began poring in. The money came from the feds, it came from donations, and other areas. All of the sudden there were all these new offices being set up in our community to address this epidemic. It did give jobs to the Navajo's.
What happened was while people had jobs in all the varying offices they were never meant to last. It is an example of when government jobs did not last forever. However, the down side to this was that these offices had names that looked good but did nothing to actually address the epidemic. I mean they did nothing. People sat in their offices, drank coffee, shot the breeze, and went home.
As pastor of the largest church in the area, our church sat 175 people and was often used for funerals even by people of other smaller churches, I was involved in ministering to all of the families of these suicides. So was my wife. We in fact held a Navajo government program at our church that taught parenting classes to parents of the teens who committed suicide. I lead a man to the Lord who had his son and daughter commit suicide a weak and one half apart and was also the man who was bringing drugs into our town.I saw first hand the devastation, the lack of concern for the reality, the lack of hope. I had a conversation with a 16 year old girl who was in the parking lot of the church crying. She told me of a litany of things she was concerned about and in the end her last thing on the list was "I just have no hope". I was interviewed by a reporter
here.
In the end after all of the money and effort and government people blew into town and then rushed out just as quickly nothing was changed and no one seemed to care. They all fattened their wallets and when there was no money left they bailed.
That is likely what is happening to any funds dealing with this homelessness. People only care as long as their is some money to be made and when they have soaked it all up they are gone and nothing is changed.
