Can't get over how incredibly clean and bum-free Dallas is

[czarizard]

Originally Posted by LosAngelesSportsFan

Those types of studies are utter nonsense. They interviewed 365 homeless people in a state of 40 million with 120,000 homeless people. Come on now. Living in downtown LA, interacting and talking to the homeless, watching videos and other interviews, you will see that plenty are not from here and that most are either on drugs, mentally ill or usually a combo of both.

In regards to the OP, im not doubting you at all but those google earth images show areas that seem desolate. You wouldn't find places like that in the LA metro unless you're 75 miles out from Downtown LA.

I lived on Spring St in DTLA for years, and I've watched video interviews. There need to be more affordable SROs like Rosslyn Lofts throughout the state, instead of playing whack-a-mole with encampments. Sure there are homeless from out of state, but being a transplant myself, it didn't seem out of proportion with people from out of state or foreign-born. Crust punks or traveling homeless were a minority. The study is counting when people became homeless, 90% becoming homeless *in* California doesn't sound far-fetched. If 40% are born or come from other states like in SF, after having moved to California and lived there for some amount of time, that probably tracks with the non-homeless population.

Many studies point to housing costs being to blame. California's homeless problems are out-of-scale with other states. California makes up 11% of the US population, but 28% of people experiencing homelessness and 49% of unsheltered. 68% of homeless in California are unsheltered which is the highest of any state: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf Maybe it's a hard pill to swallow, but addressing root problems is probably a step in fixing the issue, no?

What's the solution if not affordable housing? People with mental or addiction issues can still find housing in other states. I don't buy that restricting homeless from coming to California would solve California's homeless problems. Would people moving to California need to prove stable mind and income and show bank statements to get permission to move to the state? Get real