I don't know the answer to this question, but I feel like it's important from a social justice perspective: Where did the people in this camp originate from?

I don't know the answer to this question, but I feel like it's important from a social justice perspective: Where did the people in this camp originate from? I think putting people in the following statistical buckets would be enlightening: Locals: - Raised (attended k-12 schools) in Silicon Valley. Transplants who arrived healthy and able to survive: - Moved to the Valley to take a job, but were stranded when the job went away (no drug or alcohol additions pre job loss, no disabling psychiatric conditions pre job loss). - Moved to the Valley for other reasons, were stranded (again, no drug, alcohol, psychiatric causes to homelessness) Transplants who moved here because the conditions for transients are better here: - Moved to the Valley having previously been homeless. - Moved to the Valley, initially with a place to stay, but with substantial drug and alcohol abuse problems. - Moved to the Valley with substantial mental health issues that had previously caused chronic homelessness. There are probably much better ways to break this down, but hopefully that makes the idea clear. This is important because there is a huge moral difference in having great wealth and allowing people to fall into homelessness VS becoming a national hub that attracts homeless people because of better living conditions. Either way, having people live outside is not acceptable, but the solutions we might pursue are very different. If this is local-grown homelessness, it is our responsibility to address it and ensure that people aren't reduced to such conditions, regardless of what anyone from the outside contributes to the solution. If transients from across the country (or world) are concentrating here, it doesn't reduce the responsibility to address it, but it does mean that it is not our sole responsibility. The places that are exporting homelessness to us should be liable to help fix it here, otherwise they have a perverse financial incentive to put homeless people on a bus headed in any direction to make it someone else's problem. The more benefits we provide, the stronger the attraction will be to homeless people everywhere, which will only make the problem here more insurmountable.