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

In Alameda County, the number of homeless residents jumped 43 percent over the past two years. In Orange County, that number was 42 percent. Kern County volunteers surveying the region’s homeless population found a 50 percent increase over 2018. San Francisco notched a 17 percent increase since 2017.

And on Tuesday, Los Angeles officials released the results of their most recent count: Homelessness was up by 12 percent over last year in the county and up 16 percent in the City of Los Angeles.

That puts L.A. County’s homeless population at 58,936 and the city’s at 36,300.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/los-angeles-homeless-population.html

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abe182 · 51-55, M

Housing is way too expensive

Nimbus · M

@abe182 No affordable housing for those on low incomes?

Valerian · 100+, M

@abe182 But the Panhandling is excellent in busy rich California cities!

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@Nimbus Always a struggle to build enough, in what is some of the most expensive real-estate in the world. But it's not just affordable housing, it's housing, period. One thing the Trump administration got right about any of this is in its condemnation of NIMBYs.

abe182 · 51-55, M

@Nimbus not much of it because no one wants it. Brings down precious property values.