If you take a look at the homeless camps, you see lots of white men, some white women, and black men and women in more equal proportion. You see some Hispanic males but very few Asian people. Empirically I observe mostly white males. The question is why there aren’t huge crowds of Mexican immigrants. The answer is that there is money available to welcome new residents and non for the citizens that are already here.
I believe that the housing is being provided for immigrants and the rent is subsidized. The subsidies make rent higher because the landlord can charge more and be guaranteed payment with low risk of having to evict deadbeats. The availability of housing is decreased because occupancy is higher y immigrants and the rents go up because the supply of housing is shrinking.
Another effect of homelessness is that the people living in tents are effectively disenfranchised because they don’t have addresses any more and they get rousted out of their camps every few months. They can’t vote in their own self interest. This is also why drugs are so readily available. It keeps the homeless doped up and uncaring because they are having their addictions supplied.
i do not have any demographics, but i suspect that many of the entry level semi-skilled jobs are being filled by illegal migrants.
when blue collar jobs are eliminated, the blue collar worker falls to the next rung of the economic ladder, semi-skilled positions. but there are many illegal migrants who can also do that work. over time, illegal migrants take over semi-skilled occupations at the expense of unemployed us citizens.
many countries outlaw or severely limit this displacement as a safeguard to prioritize its native citizens over its illegal migrants. the usa only makes a half-hearted attempt to do so.
i agree that unemployed white males in particular do not seem to be the recipients of very many government subsidies and benefits.