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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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Cant afford the rents
Nimbus · M
@Nunlover Basically yes but if people know that it's better to go elsewhere surely?
SW-User
@Nimbus how? They don't have money for rent let alone travel to another state.
Valerian · 100+, M
@Nunlover Of course not! They get Free Needles, but the Friggin Crack & Meth prices have gone sky high!
Nimbus · M
@SW-User Hitch hike?
Valerian · 100+, M
@Nimbus To get to their Panhandling Job @ the South Ramp of Exit 43B?
SW-User
@Nimbus you've been living on the streets, malnutrition, health issues, no money, no clothes, and no where to go? It's not that easy. Try it and see how well you do after a year with nothing on the streets.
Nimbus · M
@Valerian Somewhere nearby were there are more opportunities?
Nimbus · M
@SW-User There are no organisation who help?
SW-User
@Nimbus of course there are but they're limited and have limited resources themselves.
Valerian · 100+, M
@Nimbus Yes! That's why they stay!

Free meals, showers, healthcare, shopping carts, tarps, sleeping bags, all out of the Goodness 💓💕 of Tax Dollars and/or Jesus!!
@Valerian @SW-User @Nimbus get a room 🤣
Valerian · 100+, M
@Nunlover
@SW-User👈 Blocked me 😱😭😿
@Valerian aww 😂
Valerian · 100+, M
@Nunlover I'm gonna go be mentally ill depressed and homeless now!
There's nothing to live for 😭
@Valerian I would be too 🤣
SW-User
@Nunlover 🎃