Off the top of my head:
The joke is that San Diego is "72 degrees and sunny" year round. San Diego gets about 10 inches of rain annually. Fresno gets 11 inches. SFBA gets around 20. Average for the nation is 44 inches annually iirc.
If you go someplace dry that's more inland, it's typically blazing hot in summer at a minimum and deserts can have temperature swings between day and night of 30 degrees or more.
Why wouldn't the housing affordability problem in CA be directly contributing to homelessness there?
I run several homeless sites and routinely read r/homeless. A common question is "Where can I go with better weather than where I am currently?"
I spent several years homeless. I was evicted from my apartment in Georgia and walked and accepted rides to cross the country to get back to California. So I basically camped my way across the country.
I'm quite confident I know whereof I speak on this specific detail.
Though just to be clear, I am not suggesting we ship all our homeless there, though it absolutely is true that some portion of the homeless population in California traveled there from elsewhere in some fashion.