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Another myth the study attempts to dispel is that most homeless people flock to California cities because of warm weather, liberal policies and generous services. In reality, 90% of the people surveyed said they were last housed in California, and 75% live in the same county as where they lost their housing.

That’s important to remember, Wolch said, because it’s easy to disregard unhoused people who we think “aren’t from here” and haven’t paid taxes here.

“People who are homeless are your neighbors,” she said. “People who are homeless live in the same city that you do and they possibly have lived there longer than you have.”

To solve the homelessness crisis, the main problem California needs to address is the lack of housing that’s affordable for extremely low-income residents, according to the researchers. The state has just 24 affordable and available homes for every 100 extremely low-income households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1000%. I’ve seen property get purchased, flipped minimally, and back on the market a few months later $500k+ over the original purchase price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

When I was looking at houses, I saw a few flips. All of them had very poor quality work done to them. I don't understand why someone would buy a flip since they seem even more overpriced than usual.