[quote=The-Shoveler]Give out $300-$700 cash to each homeless person monthly, pass out food, medical help.
Pass laws so no one can stop you from sleeping anywhere in the city of LA.

etc.. there are a lot of incentives to move to California if you are homeless vs other states.

Add in good weather and you become a magnet for the homeless.[/quote]

Still researching, but a cursory google search of reddit, quora, on people answering “what’s the best place to be homeless”, CA isn’t a clear first choice.

Some other places actually give living places to the homeless.

“free food” doesn’t sound unique to CA, most states don’t want people to starve. I don’t think that qualifies as “red carpet treatment”.

Free medical care? would people travel 1000 miles for a shot clinic or a free clinic to bandage some ulcers?

I
still searching, but someone in another forum referenced a paper on the “myth” of hordes of out of staters coming to CA for “great benefits”. It might be that the overwhelming majority of homeless are basically locals with no helpful social network.

when I think “red carpet, I think of more than a homeless shelter, $300 and a soupkitchen.