Every city in the U.S. has people who are poor, who are drug-addicted, who
have severe mental illness. What those cities dont have: this many people
without homes.
The real story of how L.A. became the epicenter of America’s homeless crisis
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/how-a-century-of-short-sighted-decisions-wrought-las-homeless-crisis