Futile Spending on California's Homeless Vagrant Population Has Only Grown the Problem

Miller Park Safe Ground with illegal tent camps of homeless. (Photo: Art Taylor for California Globe) Despite spending nearly $23 billion on Califo...

March 17, 2023
11:20 PM

Miller Park Safe Ground with illegal tent camps of homeless. (Photo: Art Taylor for California Globe) Despite spending nearly $23 billion on California's homeless housing, homelessness continues to grow in California. According to the Public Policy Institute of California , 'nationally, California has topped the list for the state with the largest homeless population for more than a decade. As of 2022, 30% of all people in the United States experiencing homelessness resided in California, including half of all unsheltered people (115,491 in California; 233,832 in the US).

Katy Grimes