California’s Homeless Crisis Shows the Need for Government Accountability

California’s Homeless Crisis Shows the Need for Government Accountability

With 187,000 residents homeless, California leads the nation—not in solutions, but in expensive failures. This year, major cities like Oakland saw a 9% increase in homelessness. If the state’s goal was to increase homelessness, its policies are a resounding success. The state isn’t short on resources. California has some of the nation’s highest taxpayers and receives $322 billion in annual revenue. But it burned through $24 billion of that on ho…