“Bidonville” is French for shantytown. We now have a similar word in English — “Bidenville”:

In America under President Joe Biden, the word “Bidenville” is beginning to gain traction as a term for a waste-filled, insalubrious tent city inhabited by what the left calls “people experiencing homelessness,” who often suffer from an unfortunate combination of drug addiction and mental illness.

Bidenvilles are different from the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression.

Hoovervilles comprised able-bodied people who were out of work due to the worst economic crisis and highest unemployment in U.S. history. Now, unemployment is low and entry-level jobs go begging. The Bidenvilles of today are filled more by ideology and incompetence than economic duress.

This will change if Biden et al. are allowed to destroy the economy through excessive taxation, spending, and malicious regulation.

Bidenvilles are exploding because cities are run by liberals, who not only refuse to clean up homeless encampments but facilitate the drug use that characterizes them. Also contributing to the swelling numbers is Biden’s literally treasonous policy of refusing to defend the border.

[W]ith illegal crossings topping 200,000 a month, and half or more of these migrants being released and moved into the interior, the numbers of newly arrived and needy illegal aliens are rising all over the country. Some end up on the streets, compounding already dire problems of homelessness.

No problem created by government is so bad that government cannot make it worse still:

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat, introduced an emergency appropriations bill July 19 that would provide additional funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program. …

If Norton’s measure passes, taxpayers not only would be on the hook for illegal immigrants’ shelter, food, and medical care after crossing the border, followed by transportation to their favored U.S. destination. Taxpayers also would be shelling out for housing and feeding the migrants once they arrived. This would be the ultimate (socialist) red carpet.

In case the inevitable effect of throwing other people’s money at homelessness is not intuitively obvious, we have the example of San Francisco, which spends an estimated $106,000 per derelict and is consequently so infested with them that the sidewalks are ankle-deep in human waste.

The core objective of Democrat policy is to reduce all of America to a Bidenville. Then the party’s power over us will be absolute.

On a tip from Blackjack.

Biden’s maniacal War on Energy and commitment to massive wasteful spending are not the only reasons inflation won’t be easy to get under control. There is also the rising price of housing. As always, liberal policies are making matters worse.

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Climbing housing costs are set to keep inflation elevated this year, creating another challenge for Federal Reserve officials who want to see signs that price pressures are easing before slowing their interest-rate increases.

These interest rate increases are likely to trigger a recession — assuming we aren’t already in one. But even that would be better than runaway inflation.

If you want housing to be prohibitively expensive, a tried and true tactic is rent control. St Paul demonstrates. As of May, it caps rent increases at 3% per year, about one third of the current inflation rate:

This strict new rent control is hitting while building costs have soared. Between the first quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022, construction costs rose 18.2% in nearby Minneapolis…

The effect this will have on the construction of new housing should be obvious. Who is going to build if they cannot turn a profit?

Citing rent control, investors recently paused development on the 3,800-unit Highland Bridge project. Its builders would have set aside 20% of units for affordable housing, with 10% going to those earning 30% or less of area median income.

Democrats squawk that they want affordable housing. What they actually want is Americans living in tents, dependent on handouts. This was proven after Democrats took total control of California.

The best way cities can make housing affordable is to have policies that increase the housing supply. Rent control restricts supply and is economic madness, as St. Paul is proving.

Many voters appear to be so cognitively dysfunctional that they honestly cannot see the inevitable outcome of policies like rent control. Those running the Democratic Party don’t have that excuse. They know they are putting people out on the streets by preventing the construction of new housing, whether through rent control or through excessive regulation as in California.

Misery is not a bug of liberal policy; it is a feature. As Founding Father of progressivism Vladimir Lenin put it, “Worse is better.” The more desperate people there are, the easier it is to impose communism. That’s why the Democratic Party is waging a war of extermination against the middle class.

On a tip from Varla.

According to their propaganda, Democrats care about the poor. Yet prominent Democrat Maxine Waters — who lives in a mansion in a tony neighborhood outside her own district — tells the homeless to “go home.”

An unofficial social media post erroneously led people to believe they could get vouchers for permanent taxpayer-subsidized housing by showing up at a Los Angeles event. Hardly anyone got a voucher — but they did get to see their congressional representation:

Waters, with her face mask pulled below her chin, told the group of homeless people, “I want everybody to go home.”

She should have told them to drive home in their Teslas.

Someone pointed out that the reason they were there was that they had no homes to go to. Other words were exchanged. Mad Maxine lost her temper.

“Excuse me, there’s nobody in Washington who works for their people any f***ing harder than I do. I don’t want to hear this. No, no, no.”

Even the Chairmoonbat of the House Financial Services Committee is smart enough to realize that the incident did not make her look good. So she ordered a Los Angeles Times reporter not to cover it:

“You’ll hurt yourself and the community trying to put this together without background,” she said to reporter Connor Sheets. “I don’t want you to start trying to write it, you won’t understand it.”

Here’s what you vote for when you vote Democrat:

Maybe it is not such a good idea to become reliant on Big Government.

On tips from Wiggins and Mr. Freemarket.

The liberal cancer is metastasizing, as you can see by the spread of Left Coast style homeless colonies in formerly livable parts of the country. The Democratic Party and the liberal establishment media deliberately promote this phenomenon, as it represents the fundamental transformation of America that is their central objective.

If you think you have the belly for it, watch as a local ABC story sides with a sprawling derelict encampment in the middle of Phoenix by yanking manipulatively on heartstrings. We are asked to believe that the issue is not crime, drug use, law & order, access by taxpayers to their own streets and sidewalks, or what Democrats have been doing to the economy, but rather the supposed civil rights abuse of vagrants’ trash getting thrown away when it prevents cleanup crews from doing their job:

In contrast to other major cities, central Phoenix is not yet a postapocalyptic hellscape. But as you can see, the media is working on that.

They could just as easily present a story about little kids forced to wade through needles and human waste as they are menaced by drug-addled schizophrenics festering with communicable diseases. But that would not advance the agenda, so instead we get the tear-jerker about the elderly vagrant whose false teeth got taken out with the trash.

There are about 11 million unfilled jobs in this country. Despite the damage Biden et al. have done to the economy through excessive taxing, spending, and regulation, the rapidly worsening homeless situation is not primarily an economic issue. Liberal policy has made the lifestyle viable.

On a tip from Varla. Hat tip: Not the Bee.