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> California accounts for nearly a quarter of the entire homeless population in the United States

And, just for reference, 12% of the US population lives in California.



So around double what you would expect.


don't forget "export" from other states:

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2021804212_mentally...

"The state of Nevada and its primary psychiatric hospital “intentionally and wrongfully” foisted the cost of caring for indigent mentally ill people onto California cities and counties by issuing patients bus tickets out of town without making proper arrangements for their care, a lawsuit filed Tuesday in San Francisco charges."


"Greyhound therapy" has been around for many, many yesrs. I heard of it ca. 1980 and it wasn't new then--somebody was talking about it adding to the troubled population of Washington, DC.




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