Here's my explanation:
1. Too many are mentally ill. CA shut down many institutions that helped them years ago. They reproduce and proliferate.
2. Some are PTSD Veterans and lost their way.
3. Very few are single mother's who have fallen through the cracks as they like to say. Where are their welfare benefits?
4. California's illegal immigration that take jobs and low cost housing.
5. The vast majority are what we used to call bums or the romantic term "hobos". They just don't want to live in a structured society, plus they get all the food and water they need from different charity orgs.
6. Oops, forgot the druggies. It should be higher on this list.
Sure you're asking how I'm so certain of the above. I left a dis-functional family at 16. I lived in cars, garages, and even in a sleeping bag on the streets. I met some professional homeless and they would always tell me they prefer it that way.
At 16, I worked every menial job I could get to advance and got a studio apartment until I was self-sufficient and built from there. I remember one street job where I almost passed out from hunger. I didn't join the Navy until 25 years of age. I needed a bigger purpose. The bums don't want a purpose.
Why didn’t we hear this constant barrage of homeless news during the Obama years?
It’s not complicated. The homeless are almost all drug addicts and mentally ill. They cycle through county jails for petty crimes instead of being institutionalized in mental hospitals. Our jails are now defacto mental health institutions.