In your opinion why are there so many homeless people in LA and San Francisco ?

First, the warm weather makes California perfect if you wish to live in a tent.

The homeless population is increasing because radical progressives in government in California, (like the Governor and the Mayors of these respective cities, and their city boards), have forbidden the police to move the homeless encampments without 48 hours notice. This makes their sidewalk encampments extremely difficult to remove, because the residents simply move to another spot, and then they can't be identified easily.

The Homeless have civil activist lawyers working pro bono, and if one of the homeless is forcibly evicted, the lawyers step in and sue. It is these activist lawyers who are really the huge problem.

Another enormous problem is Anti-Fa, who issue death threats to the citizens who try to stop the homeless from camping in front of their homes and businesses. Anti-Fa threatened citizens recently in El Dorado, a suburb of San Francisco.

Additionally, these cities have set up safe sites for the homeless drug abusers to go and get free needles and a safe place to inject themselves.

It's like putting out cheese and then wondering why you have rats. Oh...did I mention the rats?

If you can imagine raw sewage from 60,000 people flowing into the LA basin, untreated, and flowing directly out to sea, the environmentalists there should be screaming to high heaven...but they are conveniently silent, because saying something might not be politically correct. The raw sewage continues to flow directly into the ocean, contaminating beaches for five miles north and five miles south of the LA basin outlet.

1. I believe in rent control

2. I believe it should be illegal to fire an employee, but the employers should work with the employees to send them to rehab, counseling, training etc.

3. The mentally ill needs to be given a room and we have enough money without raising taxes, if politicians weren't so greedy with high salaries of $100,000 -$400,000 a year, 5 times the average salary of the population in the USA.

4. Some people lost their houses because they lost their jobs, and the banks kicked them out. It should be illegal for banks not to help families who have financial hardship, not just kick them out. So now we have millions of kids who were traumatised by seeing their parents fall apart and their pets go to shelters, and losing their friends when they have to move.

5. Some people lost their car when they lost their jobs. And if there were great mass transits they can get another job! We ned better mass transits for the young, the old, the handicapped.It would save money in the long run.

6. The car industry should not be allowed to bribe or lobby to take trains, and busses away because they want to make more money and sell more cars and politicians can be bought because they have enough money for a car so who cares about poor people without a car to get to work?

Thats pretty impressive for two years, which happen to be under Trump. If I was into conspiracy theories, I might speculate that he had something to do with it. But I'm not.

Even with 2 jobs people cannot afford the rents now...landlords need to be overseen...they GAUGE and that is illegal. I lived in my car for 7 months while working 2 jobs...through no fault of my own...it happens all the time...WORKING POOR I believe the term is.

Cant afford the rents

Everyone wants to live in those cities. They are basically the most populated cities besides NY so obviously there will be more homeless as well. Also San Fran and LA not too far behind has the highest rent prices in the nation so people who are paycheck to paycheck or are lured in to make money can easily become homeless.
Those cities have good weather year round which makes for easier living on the streets. A large homeless population does attract other homeless as well.

Some states offer homeless people a bus ticket to California where the weather is more survivable on the streets

Democrats wanted to take care of illegal immigrants and their supporters agreed.

Sadly....

Millions of people in this country are one paycheck away from being homeless... And once homeless.. their health will often take a very minor turn and they can't pay that bill,... which will then ruin any credit they have left, and in most cases that results in them becoming forever homeless.

I get to see them everyday. It is depressing.

Because it's a Sanctuary State, run by liberals. They can't support the people who are already there, and yet they encourage hordes of illegals, who bring with them drugs, disease, and crime. They disrespect the police and ICE, and curse Trump, then hold their hands out when their idiotic policies inevitably fail.

They can live without freezing in winter and the local economy offers some hope of support from charities, government and the public. Plus people tend to be a little less judgemental on the coast. I cant see a person getting by in the bible belt without being picked on by the locals or the law.

Without doing research I’d say it’s because they’re expensive cities to live in.

I can't speak for L.A., but I have been to San Francisco. I was shocked at the number of homeless right there in some of the most beautiful spots. I had heard that in the late 60's, kids flocked there by the tens of thousands, thinking it would be quite the utopia with cheap or free housing and food. Sadly, a lot of those same kids became addicted to hard drugs and found out the hard way that the city simply could not provide for them. Many never left, given the temperate climate year round. Heartbreaking to see.

Housing is way too expensive

Mostly it's drugs and the free needle programs. Check out Colion Noir's youtube page for some very keen analysis

I have trouble following this article: Is it saying the homeless are following the money?

"And yet, communities around the state have been funneling more money into services for the homeless, like L.A.’s Measure H sales tax, which is adding about $355 million each year to the arsenal.

And almost 1,400 permanent supportive housing units built with money from Measure HHH, a $1.2 billion bond, are set to open in the 2019-20 fiscal year."

Wow - sounds like a lot of money - so super high taxes...and they talk about 100,000 homeless which the dollars quoted at $15K per person...I highly doubt that....sorry if I'm being thick...

Blues States rock

The price of rents have increased so much, wondering how illegal population has impacted those costs.

My opinion why... the state is warm and dry. That simple. There are two main worries of homeless folks...keeping warm and dry.

It's the climate. It never gets bitter cold there.

I was reading about the mole people in the US. Many are not homeless but simply can't afford the rents so live in the underground drainage.

Because of such restrictive Gun Laws, In California, no one has taken a shot at them yet!

Pepper a few cardboard "houses" or tarps with Birdshot and those sidewalks will be empty for blocks the next night!

Weather amenable to unsheltered living in both summer and winter.

Local authorities aren't quite as dedicated to fucking them as hard as they are elsewhere. Relative abundance of soup kitchens, etc.

Sky high rent, and a high concentration of people that can afford it.

California's 'rich and happening' reputation draws many. They can only expect skin cancer- and having to drink recycled sewage.

New York has more homeless people than any other city in the USA and it snows there so this is NOT a weather problem this is a financial problem that is ignored by Americans.

High cost of living. But then why is the cost of living so high? 🤔

Amenable weather, higher cost of living, higher population.

Too expensive to live in CA especially those areas.

San Francisco is a haven for liberalism and out of liberalism comes tolerance, then ultra tolerance, and eventually ends up being a place for diseased BUMS and illegals to do their business. Usually on the sidewalk.

BlameZ the DemoncratZ

how Can this be?.
How isn’t it a socialist utopia where they sit around in togas eating grapes and shit? 🤷‍♂️