[jdavis703]

So the big difference in east coast vs west coast is the percent of unsheltered people. If you disregard whether people have shelter, the homeless rates are pretty similar between coasts.

One of the main problems is CA local governments are severely restricted from raising revenue. Property taxes are capped at 1% of assessed value, and assessed value is capped from raising faster than inflation. Other taxes require a 2/3 vote in order to pass. This means city governments are unable to capture a lot of the wealth increases that are leading to displacement among low income people.

This is a tough problem to fix, but it requires both money and a will to tolerate low income people in our neighborhoods.

[WillPostForFood]

Yet California has the highest overall taxation in the country (income, property, sales, capital gains, gas). So there is plenty of money being collected by the government. If the homelessness requires money as a solution, then the money is already there. It is an allocation problem.