[ceejayoz]

> Once you're homeless your chances of scraping up the $100+ for a bus ticket across the country are basically 0.

Read the article I linked. Quite a few cities are happy to subsidize such a bus ticket, as you become someone else's problem.

[dsfyu404ed]

The number of people being subsidized is not that large. I'd wager that it's aproximatly made up for by non-homeless people who leave the destination states and then advocate for public policy that exacerbates the homelessness problem in their new cities/states. The spread of severe homelessness problems (i.e. the difference between homelessness in Baltimore and homelessness in SF) northward up the west coast but lagging CA's level of homelessness by a couple years seems to support my hypothesis.