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Homelessness, California-Style

by Brian Campbell

Sep 03, 2025
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The Five-Step Homelessness Process:

  1. Prioritize Illegal Immigrants

  2. Criminalize Poverty

  3. Throw billions into a rathole

  4. Blame Trump for failure

  5. Rewrite Reality

Ah, California. The land of sunshine, palm trees, and—oh yes—multi-billion-dollar homelessness budgets that somehow end with more tents under the overpasses than ever before.

But here’s the dirty little sec…

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