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CNN’s Fareed Zakaria appeared on the Bill Maher show this weekend and said something you don’t hear very often on his network.

Zakaria bemoaned the homeless problem in America and noted the absolute fact that the worst homeless problems are in blue cities run by Democrats.

He also pointed out that these cities often consider the rights and privileges of the homeless over the rest of the population, even though they are not the majority.

It’s always refreshing to hear someone on the left admit something like this.

Joe Messina has details:

Speaking on HBO’s “Real Time,” Zakaria said, “Let me say something that’s going to get me into trouble, which is, if you look at where you have the most acute homelessness problems, they are blue cities in blue states, to a large extent.”

He argued that the issue isn’t a lack of spending. “The right tends to be very stingy about the money that it would take to solve these problems. But that’s not New York City, that’s not L.A. We’re spending crazy amounts of money on it,” he said, adding that in his view there’s “this other side to it,” which he described as “overprivileging the rights of the homeless over the rights of the other 99.5%.”

Zakaria said the pattern isn’t uniform across the country. “Miami does not have the kind of homelessness problem that New York has. Houston doesn’t, Dallas doesn’t,” he said. He attributed part of the difference to housing construction. “Part of it is that those places are much better at building stuff. One of the problems in a place like New York or in California is we just can’t build housing, of any kind, right? Affordable, homeless, whatever it is, and people don’t want it.”

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On this week's ‘Real Time with Bill Maher,' CNN’s Fareed Zakaria said, “Let me say something that will get me into trouble,” before he said most homelessness problems are in Blue areas. He added that another issue was the “over-privileging the rights of the homeless over the… pic.twitter.com/hQD5q2kgtL

— Nick (@nspin310) October 3, 2026

So many once beautiful American cities have been ruined by this problem and the worst part is that it was allowed to happen by the people who run them.