[waxwander]

Ummm... LA has more homeless people than any other city because of the weather. NYC winters kill. LA's outdoors are basically like the indoors most other places. No mosquitoes. Only rare rain. 70 degrees most of the time.

Much of California's poor are created elsewhere and they move to California. It's easier to be homeless in California than most other places.

[tabtab]

Indeed that may be a big factor. A better study of who, where, and why is needed to understand the bigger picture. It's premature to fill in details with the typical partisan angles.