Hunter Biden working as director of development for LA homelessness prevention, tenants' rights group

In an interview posted Tuesday, Hunter Biden revealed that he has begun working with a nonprofit in Los Angeles that works on preventing homelessness and upholds tenants’ rights.

Biden told podcaster Andrew Callaghan that he has begun working with the group BASTA Inc., which states on its website that it is "dedicated to advocating for tenants' rights, preventing homelessness, and eliminating substandard housing," and is the "premier tenant rights organization in the County of Los Angeles."

Biden told Callaghan, "I just think there is such an opportunity to be of service right now—and not in, you know, some kind of melodramatic way—but I just, a lot of people that are, you know, getting the sh*t beat out of them out there, right here in LA. And there is an enormous opportunity for just normal people to do kind of heroic things."

"I’m working with a group now called BASTA, the homeless prevention, and I just started actually as director of development for BASTA, which is the leading homeless prevention and tenants' rights group in southern Los Angeles," he said. 

Biden said that BASTA protects people "from eviction, and we are the only group—at least in southern California—that represents undocumented and so we don’t take any federal money." 

"It’s not just El Salvadorean immigrants, it’s Ukrainian immigrants that came here under duress from what is going on in Ukraine and find it really hard to find work because of the fear of employers. that they are going to disrupt their business because of ICE raids and things like that," he continued.

"Then they lose their income, and almost all of these people are families and children. And if you can keep someone in their apartment or their home you obviously also [are] keeping somebody off the street and homelessness. And what you find is that when a child becomes homeless, the road back to any chance of normalcy just becomes exponentially harder and harder."