Bureaucratic inefficiency also affects growth directly through misallocation of investments in the economy. Continual misallocation of resources will eventually cause economic distortion. Shumeyko contended that such misallocation fed potentially dangerous popular discontent with the parliament and politicians. Robert Higgs argues that the Homestead Act induced no long-term misallocation of resources. The report described misallocation of public land, evictions and land-grabbing by corrupt politicians and bureaucrats. In the Austrian analysis, it is the misallocation of resources that should be avoided. As for misallocation, many deserving households are excluded from welfare schemes due to misallocation. Some firefighters called it a misallocation of resources, others were simply frustrated at the delay. In 2013, he proposed the misallocation hypothesis for the European slump and crash.