"One of the biggest failures has been state and local leaders' inability or unwillingness to address the high cost of housing. "

What the article below does not address is the overregulation in California that affects construction of housing and the NIMBY attitude.



"Many blame mental illness and drug addiction for the soaring numbers, but experts say that is only part of the puzzle. The state’s severe housing shortage, which has forced rents to increase at twice the rate of the national average and put the median price of a single family home at $615,000, has also contributed to the crisis."

"One of the biggest failures has been state and local leaders' inability or unwillingness to address the high cost of housing. "

"Two other factors repeatedly come up in discussions about homelessness in California: Gov. Ronald Reagan signing the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967, which ended the practice of admitting patients into psychiatric institutions against their will, and Gov. Jerry Brown reducing the prison population after a federal three-judge panel ordered the state in 2009 to cut the inmate population by 46,000 people."



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-one-catch-us-how-california-s-homelessness-crisis-exploded-n1123156