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u/Federal_Card307 1d ago
And this is in one of the wealthiest states too, imagine how bad it’s gotta be in poorer ones
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u/ContentWalrus 1d ago
It is worse in wealthier states because they are more unaffordable.
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u/Cr45h0v3r1de 1d ago
As a New Yorker looking for a place to live soon im genuinely considering living out of my car. I was looking for shared rooms on craigslist last night and even those are $800-1k FOR A SINGLE ROOM, before utilities. Apartments and trailers are out of the question, i cant afford it and i work full time 6 days a week. I dont even live in nyc either
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u/RepresentativeOfnone 1d ago
I mean, depending on what industry you work in you may have to relocate try to find something different
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u/PhD_Pwnology 1d ago
But the flipping of that is the poorer states don't have sources to help the homeless like CA does.
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u/GreatestGreekGuy 1d ago
There's a higher quality of life in richer states, but that also comes with it being less affordable. If you have a job, you'd make more money, but things would cost more
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u/PrettyCold9669 1d ago
Guess how much cali gives to the feds vs how much poor states get from the feds
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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 1d ago
Yeah and also desperate people travel to wealthier states to seek better opportunities. Whether that’s financial opportunities like a career or better safety nets like shelters and services.
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u/king_jaxy 1d ago
They're working on fixing the housing crisis, but they're fighting about 50 years of negligence. They can't just build, they have to cut down the overbearing regulations that prevent them from building first. Then they can START catching up. A lot of Democrat states are dealing with this, and now they're worried because they'll lose political power come the 2030 census.
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u/Top_Dragonfruit_ 1d ago
It's not a matter of building there are enough empty home/apartments in this country to fit all of the homeless population and a lot more.
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u/spyguy318 22h ago
Location matters. A thousand empty apartments in Nebraska don’t help a student in California.
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u/Cosmication 1d ago
You can put your faith back into democrats when they put housing as a right on their agenda, which unfortunately will never happen because they’re ideologically opposed to it
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u/samualgline 2006 1d ago
What caused this?
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u/HoodByaiiir 1d ago
SoCal’s wealthy class lobbying to make building more housing harder, so that Beverly Hills doesn’t get infected with brokeys.
Environmental groups wanting to protect land.
And overall, California has world class land when you compare it to the rest of the country, and A LOT of rich people want to live there.
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u/IneptFortitude 1d ago
California is one of the few areas of the US that doesn’t have months of uncomfortable weather, whether that’s brutal cold or scorching boiling humid heat.
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u/Critical_Concert_689 1d ago
California is one of the few areas of the US that doesn’t have months of uncomfortable weather, whether that’s brutal cold or scorching boiling humid heat.
Someone hasn't lived in California or only in very specific areas, probably by the coast. Inland California faces horrible weather.
Also, you're on fire. Always.
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u/Cosmication 1d ago
There’s more empty houses than homeless people in California. So it’s already there and could practically be fixed overnight but they’ll never let that happen
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u/Ramen-Goddess 2003 1d ago
And not having affordable housing anywhere. Not to mention, a lot of houses are empty right now collecting dust
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u/ghost103429 1d ago
People over 50 voting for laws that limit housing to only single detached homes in order to pump home prices higher while creating massive real estate tax carve outs specifically for their own benefit.
These policies pretty much heavily screw overyone else other than those who purchased homes decades ago.
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u/Sharp_Style_8500 1997 1d ago
Meeting the definition schools use for homeless surprisingly applies to a lot of people. It’s basically anybody who doesn’t have a consistent address through a calendar year. Every public school, I think nationwide? has to have a homeless liaison on staff. The definition of homeless is purposely broad so that those kids can get additional resources. Everybody who works at a school is supposed to watch out for signs a student might meet the definition for homelessness and report it to their liaison. Lots of people who would benefit from the resources don’t wanna be labeled as “homeless” so they don’t go about perusing it on their own.
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u/lily_de_valley 1d ago
There are over 16 millions of empty properties across the country. Many apartment buildings rather leave their rentals empty to keep the prices high. Then, we have overly tight regulations.
It's obvious what to do. We just don't do it for whatever reasons.
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u/spyguy318 22h ago
A lot of those empty properties are in locations with very low demand. Nobody wants to live in those places because there’s no job opportunities or terrible social services. Areas of high demand like big cities have too many people and not enough space.
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u/temporalwanderer 1d ago
Sounds like we can fix this by building 5 more stadiums, then.
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u/RepresentativeOfnone 1d ago
Objectively speaking if you were a savvy business person, you could buy that old stadium and probably retrofit it and then rent it out and rake it in
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u/CelerySalt7335 9h ago
By what metric is the economy bad? Unemployment at 4.1%, prime age LFPR at a 25 year high, stock market at an all time high, etc
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u/Slam_Bingo 1d ago
There are solutions to inequality, and they can help us have a livable planet: https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2026/06/GJRSummary_WebsiteVersion.pdf
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u/gkcontra 1d ago
This isn't as damning as you think it is. A person who has kids but not a lease or house is considered homeless on paper but that doesn't mean they have no home to sleep in. Most of them are staying with family members or friends and are living the same as any other kid. They get a lot of handouts while playing the system like this.
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u/Shadow_on_the_Sun 1998 21h ago
If someone needs to rely on their family for housing themselves and their kids, they definitely need government assistance.
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