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by antnisp 3202 days ago
One of the richest and largest polities on earth doesn't have the resources to guarantee basic sanitaion for all residents.
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The definition of rich is "having a great deal of money or assets", California's tight budget doesn't leave much room for a large reserve - what comes in gets spent the same year, and it's always a mystery whether or not the state will be solvent next year.
Thank prop 13 for that.
Or high-speed rail. Or unreasonable pension obligations.
Just prop 13. If a less well off Europe can handle all 3 so can the richest state in the richest country.
While statutory property tax increases are exclusive to California, homeless populations are not.
Being so spectacularly wealthy and having such a large homelessness problem at the same time is unique to California though.

Hence "wealth distribution" problem, not "not having enough wealth" problem.

One of the richest and largest polities on earth has a large number of mentally-ill people who would befoul basic sanitation facilities were they given access to them.