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California's Homelessness Crisis Is a Big Issue Everywhere
Homelessness is the single biggest failure of modern day california. It's a failure that's to do with the cost of housing, zoning and mental health services. The state has turned its prisons into modern day mental health systems. We made a disastrous decision as a society a generation ago to use our prisons as first respondes our mental health crises. And so if you're going to deal with homelessness, you can't just throw money at it. You've also got to throw services adit. If california were a sovereign nation, i look this up, it would rank as the world's fifth largest economy,. bigger than the united kingdom, just behind germany.
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