We do need more accountability for non profits though.
Whilst it’s true that europe does have homelessness too, and it has gotten worse in recent years, it is incomparable to America.
It doesn’t seem like a problem that can be fixed by some local policy or other. It’s a societal problem.
America also has stratospheric levels of inequality, a terrible healthcare system, and lacks a functional welfare state. I do not think this is a coincidence.
I’d much rather live somewhere more civilised, at the cost of higher taxation.
It always irks me to see Americans taunt Europeans on social media about their lack of very large tech companies, whilst the Europeans are perhaps too dignified to point out the consequences of America’s hypercapitalism (such as homelessness, crime, and trump) in return.
> People experiencing homelessness in California are Californians. Nine out of ten participants lost their last housing in California; 75% of participants lived in the same county as their last housing (Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative - UCSF, page 5, June 2023)[0].
> Two-thirds (66%) were born in California[0].
> Where were you living at the time you became most recently became homeless?[1]
85.39% answered Santa Clara county in a survey conducted on homelessness in Santa Clara county conducted by the county government around the same time. 54.12% of those answered that they'd lived in Santa Clara county for more than ten years, with the next largest percentage, 21.26%, having lived there for 1-4 years.
[0]:https://homelessness.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/CA...
[1]:https://osh.santaclaracounty.gov/reports-and-publications-li...
[2]:https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/07/californ...
I found this funny because by far the biggest danger I have seen there are endless electric scooters littering the sidewalks.
"Tent cities" do still exist, regardless of what the article stated.
And under bridges is still a common gathering point.
But yes, to a way lesser degree than anything you'd find in CA.