[gmarx]

They certainly try to give that impression in the article but if you look at the animation showing where all the homeless are being sent it sure looks like the bubble around LA and SF grew a lot during the time frame.

Where these bubbles net flows or totals? Can't tell.

I do strongly suspect and have read some (inconclusive) evidence that a large number of the drugged out long term homeless in LA and SF were shipped here from elsewhere. I don't believe that anyone has a special right to move to a nice city and adopt a street camping meth smoking lifestyle and expect the new city to not only tolerate it but subsidize it.