One of the very liberal reporters at the LA Times did a series of articles on the homeless crisis in LA a year or two ago.
He actually had difficulty finding a homeless person who was from Southern California. Nearly all of the homeless were from other states or other countries.
It's not California's failure so much as it is that the rest of the nation is using California to warehouse their homeless so they can feel smug about not caring for their own citizens.
No, it's not "someone moves to CA and later becomes homeless."
It's someone becomes homeless and their home city doesn't want to pay to deal with it, so they buy them a $5 bus ticket to LA.
Steve Lopez, the journalist I was referring to, interviewed a group of homeless living in Hollywood in one of his articles. All of the individuals were homeless prior to coming to LA, and almost all of them had been sent here.
He actually had difficulty finding a homeless person who was from Southern California. Nearly all of the homeless were from other states or other countries.
It's not California's failure so much as it is that the rest of the nation is using California to warehouse their homeless so they can feel smug about not caring for their own citizens.