Your missing the part where many states chose not to accept the housing funds, like Texas under Rick Perry, and instead just bought their homeless bus tickets to California.
Texas still just buys their homeless bus tickets to California. When I ask homeless people in LA where they are from, Texas is the #1 response. The LA Times just ran an article this week about people who to come LA seeking stardom and are homeless within a few weeks because they didn't bring enough money to pay rent because they thought they'd be a rich megastar within a few days.
It's truly fucked up for LA and SF to get blamed for having a homeless problem when most of the homeless in CA aren't even locals.
Please do some actual research here. Busing occurs, but everywhere does it (including SF) and it doesn't largely affect homeless population level in cities (because everyone is doing it). The vast majority of the homeless population in SF is from SF.
Texas still just buys their homeless bus tickets to California. When I ask homeless people in LA where they are from, Texas is the #1 response. The LA Times just ran an article this week about people who to come LA seeking stardom and are homeless within a few weeks because they didn't bring enough money to pay rent because they thought they'd be a rich megastar within a few days.
It's truly fucked up for LA and SF to get blamed for having a homeless problem when most of the homeless in CA aren't even locals.