Inside California’s complex and growing homelessness crisis

The poor are struggling. Cost of living is the highest its ever been. Fuel , food , clothes, basic products is using up paychecks. Bills , taxes , fees. Everything is expensive.

Politicians seem to think they can fix anything by throwing money at it. 🤷🏿‍♂️

I’m a California resident and lost my apartment this year due to the ridiculous price of living. I work 90 to 105 hours a week and can’t afford to live. What is wrong with this picture America 🤔. The fake story of work hard and you’ll succeed seems very tainted as of late. Apparently the harder you work the more you suffer and the more you lose

Born, raised, and still living in CA and everything everywhere is so expensive!

Funny how less rich countries can figure this out. 🤔

This isn’t a blue or red thing it’s a lack of affordable housing thing. There are so many vacant homes and luxury apartments being built but nothing for those struggling. You have zoning laws and nimby’s that are causing this to skyrocket even more!

It's an easy fix. Low cost housing is needed.

The issue is greedy landlords and the lobbyists who encourage greedy behaviors

Typical America spent $1.7 Trillion on multiple failed F-35 jets that could have housed ALL the US homeless 29 times over. The funniest 100-million-dollar F-35 mishap was the one that fell off the bow of a huge US carrier into the South China sea. Asking the public to find another 100-million-dollar F-35 mishap. Hey, you guys, seen our jet? Haha. Only in America.

Rents need to be capped . Enough so owners can turn a profit but not unaffordable.

The fact that anyone is on the risk of being homeless even if you have a job because the rent is higher then your income is beyond acceptable level and shows how our system is flawed.

SO WAIT A SECOND IF THERE ARE 350 PEOPLE ON A WAITING LIST HOW DO YOU SAY EVERYONE IS REFUSING SHELTER SOUNDS LIKE THERE ISNT ENOUGH SHELTERS LIARS 😡😡😡😡😡

The lack of affordable housing should be a key consideration in the zoning laws, but California has quite a few regulations (many that don't make sense) and San Fransico in particular makes it difficult to build enough apartments. Unfortunately, one major contributor to homelessness that is not talked about is how we build our cities, specifically putting emphasis on sustaining and building more suburbs and parking lots.

The only people that will be left in CA are those who can’t afford to leave.

Build Tiny Homes. Billionaires and Millionaires should help.

The homeless crisis started in the 1960's. As a country, we started to view psychiatric hospitals as prisons for the mentally ill. The movie, One Flew Over The Coo-coos Nest came out. Long term psychiatric hospitals were closed. A move was made to community based facilities which also eventually close. Patients were discharged to the streets. With no place to send them, the numbers have grown exponentially. Sure, a portion are solely financially disadvantaged but most suffer from very severe mental illness. Mental illness tends to combine with drug and alcohol dependency.

I live in the Florida keys, homeless everywhere. It’s not a blue state problem

The American dream is just that bc you have to be asleep to believe it. George Carlin.

We can give 100 billion to Ukraine but not a penny to solve this problem. Make it make sense. We also need regulated rent control. 1200 to split a room is the problem

It's not hard to figure out that the average rent cost for 1 bedroom is 1,600 per month. If you take $15.00 per hour at 32 hours aweek take home pay without taxes being taken out is $1,920 per month. The wages in 2023 and the cost of living don't match up like they did in 2012. People are struggling to pay a grand a month on rent.