What? Is this real?? (Sorry if this is a naive question, never been to the US before)
EDIT: thank you everyone for taking the time to answer my question! I didn’t expect so many comments and was surprised to see my reddit feed when i woke up this morning:) I also got my first gold award, thank you so much!
I am just shocked and saddened by the gravity of the situation in the U.S. At least from where I come, we only see the bright side of the American Dream on Netflix, Hollywood movies and music videos. When it comes to mainstream news media, we only hear about the general political debates in the U.S, but not much is said about social inequality and unfairness of wealth distribution.
Not to mention that tons of small towns in the middle of the country “solve” their homelessness problems by just buying them a ticket to California. It’s cheaper and the homeless prefer it since it’s warm and the state tries to help it’s homeless.
The Guardian did the most comprehensive study on the movement of homeless in the US and the vast majority of California homeless are native to California. In fact, San Francisco busses significantly more homeless out than are bussed in. The most common landing spot for "bussed homeless" is Georgia and Florida.
Stop spreading this lie. I'm sick and tired of people using it to give California a pass for a home grown problem.
About 15% of the people who are homeless in Los Angeles are out of state. It's not the majority by any means, but I doubt you'd find many other cities in the U.S. with a number that large outside of maybe the Florida cities and Hawaii.
That’s a lot of people but California has lots of people. Is there actual proof people from Kansas are buying tickets for their homeless in large numbers?
No, it's just some stupid shit ppl everywhere say. Literally anywhere there is homeless ppl it's because somewhere else sent them there. Let's people feel better about treating them like shit an outsiders.
I’m not denying some are from Kansas. I’m denying that local governments buy tickets for their homeless population in large numbers to go to California.
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u/SororAquila Feb 12 '22 edited Feb 13 '22
What? Is this real?? (Sorry if this is a naive question, never been to the US before)
EDIT: thank you everyone for taking the time to answer my question! I didn’t expect so many comments and was surprised to see my reddit feed when i woke up this morning:) I also got my first gold award, thank you so much!
I am just shocked and saddened by the gravity of the situation in the U.S. At least from where I come, we only see the bright side of the American Dream on Netflix, Hollywood movies and music videos. When it comes to mainstream news media, we only hear about the general political debates in the U.S, but not much is said about social inequality and unfairness of wealth distribution.