Why dont worry about California giving the federal government more than it takes ? Or when California GDP is getting and bigger than lot of wealthy countries ? Or when we export technology that helps you and millions around the world ?
Why do you want to pretend as if there are no problems with homelessness in California? People don't like it when problems are ignored and/or denied to even exist. The fact here is that California has a big problem with homelessness and it is starting to invade the "wealthy" areas of the state too. You can continue to ignore it, or you can demand that your state do something to solve the problem. I live on the opposite coast, so it has no effect on me personally, so if you think homelessness is not a problem, then whatevs.
Do many homeless people go to California from other states? If so, maybe it is more liberal in their attitude toward the unfortunate and hobbo types.
What is solution? Ship them back where they came from? Would that be legal?
I don't know. If I knew the solution for homelessness, I would probably be a very rich lady.
I just find it strange that SOME people would rather pretend a problem doesn't exist instead of acknowledging it and attacking it. That is nothing but blatantly ignorant.
Nobody is saying it doesn't exist. It exists
everywhere. It's not a liberal or conservative or red state blue state problem, it's a human problem. It's an American problem with few good solutions that anyone is willing to pay for. It requires mental health spending, spending on shelter and, low cost housing. It requires rent control and drug treatment programs. It exists. Now what do we DO about it?
The homeless rate in California has grown immensely in just the last year.
California Today: State’s Homeless Population Drives National Increase
It could hardly come as a surprise to anyone who travels around the state: the number of people who are homeless in California
continues to rise at a steady clip. Every year, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development releases a
Point in Time count of the homeless population. This year that number reached nearly 554,000 — a 1 percent increase from last year, driven by the dramatic surge in West Coast cities.
More than one-quarter of the total homeless population nationwide lives in California, roughly 114,000. The vast majority are “unsheltered” — a more bureaucratic term to describe the thousands living on the streets, under freeways and tucked into grassy fields and parks in cities all around the state.
“It’s certainly a bigger increase than we would have expected,” said Ben Metcalf, the director of the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development. “There’s a tale of different countries here: We’re seeing a real significant increase and much of the rest of the country is not. We’re all doing the same things, but here the rent is too damn high. We’ve seen an incredible increase in the cost of housing.”
