Cory Doctorow on Nostr: 12% of Americans live in California - but 30% of homeless Americans, and 50% of ...

12% of Americans live in California - but 30% of homeless Americans, and 50% of unsheltered Americans, call California "home." This prompts endless schadenfreude from "red state" partisans, and is waved as proof of the failure of liberal policies. But the real story is both more complicated - and simpler.

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