[vondur]

Well, you can put this same question to most of the larger cities on the West Coast, and the answers are pretty similar: 1) Decent weather: Most west coast cities have fairly mild weather, so you most likely wont freeze to death. 2) Lack of law enforcement: Most cities on the West Coast have taken a hands off approach to most of the homeless, so no need to worry about getting arrested. 3) Drugs: I'm gonna guess it's easy to get drugs here, being closer to Mexico where a lot of it comes from. 4) Sent there: A lot of other states/cities have been putting their homeless on buses to these areas with one way tickets. They are told either go to jail there, or go to $west_coast_city and not jail.

[abbracadabbra]

It would be helpful to share evidence on assertion #4, it is a claim that often appears but usually without proof.

[1123581321]

This Guardian article is a good summary and starting point to look up stories about the cities featured. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

You’re right it’s not as well publicized as it should be.

[plazmaphyujin]

Try a cursory Google search. It's not only well documented, but there have been several publicized court cases that cities in Nevada have lost and had to pay SF restitution for bussing their mentally unwell homeless over.

Here's an article about Las Vegas's "Greyhound Therapy": https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Homeless-patients-bus...