On Netflix there was an entertaining documentary called Wild Wild Country.
I was just showing that, properly applied, a little bit of money can go a long way. I think they had about 60,000 acres of land but from that image it appears to be only a few 100 acres at most, to house many thousands of people.
The problem isn’t so much about poverty. This is not 1929.
It is multiple things ... the combination of a nation awash in drugs and drug addiction, mental illness (fried brains) from years of drug use, lax law enforcement, and easy access to welfare.
In other words, liberalism.