Interesting. I was not aware of that level of spend from CA. There are a number of resources that get into, this one [1] from 'calmatters.org' agrees with you b

Interesting. I was not aware of that level of spend from CA. There are a number of resources that get into, this one [1] from 'calmatters.org' agrees with you by saying essentially housing is too expensive (and goes a bit further to say that the housing that was built was also expensive itself). That resource gives 3 main resources, bad tracking of money spent & (2) and (3) are again really saying it's just too expensive to live in CA. The 10B number is even low! It appears that CA spent 20B over the last 5 years [2], $42,000 per homeless person. [1] The part I find really interesting, is the per-capita spend amount. California has a population of 39M, and spent 20B per five years, that is a $1000 per capita (per year) amount. In contrast, that number in Seattle is a meager $148, and across the lake from Seattle, in Bellevue that drops to $21 [3] I'm really shocked at the per-capita spend difference. My impression was that in Seattle the policies don't work because there is no money behind it and an inadequate and broken shelter system. The data from CA - shows that money alone is not enough. My takeaway, actual housing first, a well functioning shelter system do still seem to me to be biggest key to the problem. Clearly though, throwing money at the issue is not sufficient. [1] https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/07/something-clearly-off-homelessness-spending/ https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/07/something-clearly-... [2] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-09/state-audit-california-fails-to-track-homeless-spending-billions-dollars https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-09/state-au... [3] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/does-seattle-bear-the-burden-of-king-countys-homelessness-kinda/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/does-seat...