Agreed, but just so no one latches onto what I think you meant as a joke, the overwhelming majority of homeless people in California are native Californians.
I didn't bother to cite my sources at the time, and it seems that was a mistake. I used careless language. The overwhelming majority are Californians, at least as much as I have any right to claim to be. They lived in California for a significant enough period of time that they didn't necessarily intend to just become homeless. However, you're correct that a simple majority, not the vast majority, are native Californians.
> 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.
