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This city in Los Angeles County contains the majority of the homeless population.

What is Los Angeles?

100

The closing down of Mental Hospitals in 1967 is a factor for this cause of homelessness in California.

What is Mental Illness or Drug Abuse?

100

Proponents who wanted to solve the homelessness problem of California failed to unseat this current Governor of California.

Who is Gavin Newsom?

100

Over eight thousand people were shot and killed by the Police between 2015-2023.  14% or roughly 1/7 of that eight thousand were killed in what state.

What is California?

200

A little more than a third of all homeless people in California belong to this ethnic group.

What are Hispanics?

200
A California business owner who has $100 dollars to spend each hour on employees has 10 workers he pays $10 each.  California just raised minimum wage to $15 dollars an hour.  He can't afford to continue employing all the people he has.  California raising the minimum wage will contribute to this cause of homelessness.

What is unemployment?

200

There are roughly 160,000 homeless individuals in California.  A particular youtube candidate in the governor's recall election in California, stated that when he wins the race he will build these Javitz style centers that can house 2,000 individuals each.  This i s how many of those centers he said he would build.

What is 80?

200

A sizable majority of people shot and killed by the police, regardless of ethnicity, were killed while being this.

What is armed?

300

40% of all homeless males fall under this category.

What are veterans?

300

The United States, and more locally California, put in an Eviction Moratorium which kept landlords from evicting tenants who weren't paying rent.  While this saves people who can't pay rent from being evicted immediately, it also tells anyone who wants to rent properties that California is a place where you might not make money in that industry.  The scaring off of people from building more homes and renting/selling them contributes to which cause of homelessness.

What is affordable housing?

300

A Youtuber running in the recall for California's governor stated that he could have every homeless person off the streets in this number of days if his policies were enacted.

What is 60?

300
43-51% of all people shot by the police were of this ethnic group.

What is white/caucasion?

400

This percentage of the homeless population is 24 years or older.

What is 90%?

400

This contributing factor of homelessness is a problem for everyone starting out, and not a life long condition.

What is a low income?

400

A Youtuber running in the recall for California's governor stated that he could also slow down or curb the growth of homelessness by doing this to the last two years of high school.

What is turning it into vocational or college classes to get a Associates or a vocational certificate program?

400

A Youtuber running in the recall for California's governor stated that he could keep young people who graduate high school from becoming homeless by paying them this amount of money per month to take classes about financial education.

What is $2,000 per month?

500

45% of the Adult Homeless population are this age or older.

What is 50?

500

Jones v. Los Angeles 2006 made it illegal to arrest someone for sleeping on the sidewalk if they don't have a residence.  This youtuber's plans as Governor of California includes building shelters to provide showers, food, and support services to all homeless people and making it illegal to sleep on the sidewalk.

Who is Kevin Paffrath?

500

This radio host, turned candidate for Governor of California during the recall election, suggested that California build small affordable homes on federal land to help ease the homeless population.  Assuming they are sober or free from drugs.

Who is Larry Elder?

500
In the hundreds of millions, this is the budget that California spends on homelessness currently.

What is 600 million?

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