Your california bias is showing. Seattle and Vancouver BC (and Vancouver WA, the northern suburb of Portland OR, along with Portland) have even worse homeless i

Your california bias is showing. Seattle and Vancouver BC (and Vancouver WA, the northern suburb of Portland OR, along with Portland) have even worse homeless issues than the bay area, and they don't have favorable climates for the unhoused. Try almost 300 days a year of rain, and winter temperatures that often dip to the 20s. Your arguments would imply that New Mexico, a poor blue state with a favorable south-western climate should be full of homeless people It's the other factors you mention, and "Cascadia/The PNW" has more in common with each other than it does with the rest of its countries (This is bioregionalism and it's strong out here). The only reason you'd know you went to Canada when you arrived at Vancouver BC from WA state is that you'll see a lot of tim hortons around. SF bay area and Vancouver BC have the same exact problems despite wildly different weather. It's culture and laws. Honestly, our culture and laws which allow this to happen are super based and awesome, and having a large homeless population as externalities of booming economies, and lax drug laws is worth it. The rest of the world wishes it was the PNW, and being the "Prussia of the USA" is the position that California will naturally find itself in as a result of its northern half having the same factors which drive it to have so many unhoused.