Spent a week in San Diego recently. I wasn’t even downtown and I swear every other person I saw on the street was a homeless/bum
Last year SD had 149 deaths by hep C. Now three days a week they power spray and disinfect some streets at a lot of money per month.
Similar in Los Angeles (my home town — I now live in NYC, which is also similar).
I asked my brother, who still lives in LA, if downtown is as bad as they say, and he said, “It’s like something out of THE LIVING DEAD.”
We were at the Grant Hotel in the Gaslamp District of San Diego about 10 years ago for a corporate event. The homeless had taken over the pocket park nearby in this very nice tourist district. It was not pleasant.
Los Angeles is like that too. I worked a grant panel last spring and my husband and I drove around a bit. MacArthur Park, west of downtown, is a homeless CAMP. It looked the size of a Boy Scout Jamboree - acres and acres of tents, homeless folks. And Wilshire Blvd. I would not work down there for love nor money. Even the offramps right off the freeway. What is wrong with the Mayor? The liberals??
Florida, Arizona and the west coast are where the drug addicts and bums go because they can sleep or pass out on the grass and not freeze to death.