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> wait until the yearly $15B that CA spends on homeless disappears.

Wouldn't this alleviate the situation? I hear homeless people come to CA for the benefits.

The ones i saw when i visited SF clearly didn’t come there to benefit from anything. They were zombies walking the street with saliva dripping from their mouth.

I can’t imagine that this is with 15B spendings. It also makes me wonder what it’s going to be without..

Most of the money for homeless outreach is pork. We refuse to force people into mental care facilities and drug rehab when they are in desperate need. Instead its just a stack of bandaids one on top of the next. It’s just a million here, a million there, and nobody has the political capital to kill projects that yield no results.

California used to do that. It was apparently really bad in those facilities. So much so that putting them on the street was better.

But also being outdoors in CA is better than say MA.

Not during wildfire season when the weather forecast is "smoke"

Smoke is much better than snowstorm or 10F or lower.

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