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I live literally at ground zero in a SoCal beach town, so I have a pretty good perspective on what's occurring.

Now, this may not comport with standard FR sentiment, but the issue has nothing to do with housing costs, illegals or even (un)employment.

Rather, the growing homeless population is a result of the wholesale closing of mental institutions, both in Calif and elsewhere. Since Calif has pleasant weather and currently relaxed policing standards, the nations's homeless gravitate here.

However, to be perfectly honest, these people are walking alcoholic & drug addicted zombies. Even the traditional "able bodied, clear thinking" hobo (maybe 25% max) is still a weird, screwed up, sketchy, unfit substance abuser.

Now, whether mental illness caused them to turn to drugs & alcohol, or whether their various addictions caused permanent brain damage, the end result is the same: we have a huge number of people who should be institutionalized.

Now, I understand that this perhaps also doesn't appeal to FR opinion, but the truth is, societies throughout the ages have had to deal with some % of the population, that for whatever reasons, happened to get screwed on the genetic lottery and were essentially "born losers".

These poor bums were the scrawny, ugly, un-athletic, unintelligent losers you may have noticed in HS. 20-30 years later (few are older than 50 - it's not a long-term survival strategy), they're digging out of garbage cans trying to collect recycling, mumbling to themselves, greasy, sunburned and completely incapable (or unconcerned) about caring for themselves.

This is the bottom line, and any criticism that avoids this point is simply dancing around the problem. Trump has repeatedly said on many issues that the core elements aren't difficult to understand & correct. Rather, through intention or stupidity, problems are left to fester until someone steps up and points out the obvious fix.