This is rich, as California recently passed a homeless funding package of $12B, 43X times more than was spent on the recall. And this is to deal with their estimated 160K homeless, of which ~114K are unsheltered.
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/07/19/governor-newsom-signs-historic-housing-and-homelessness-funding-package-as-part-of-100-billion-california-comeback-plan/
https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/

▪️If $280M could really end homelessness for “tens of thousands” then the $12B CA is spending over the next 2 years should be able to end it for over a million, which is far more than their entire homeless population. Does anyone really think CA homelessness will disappear in 2 years?

▪️No, because the real problem with the CA homeless is mental illness and/or drug addiction. Even the LA Times admitted that 67% of LA’s unsheltered homeless suffered from at least one of these (after previously citing a bogus report that it was just 29%).
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-07/homeless-population-mental-illness-disability

▪️OD naively assumes in this meme that it only takes ~$10K/person and a homeless person’s issues disappear. Nonsense. There is no “ending homelessness” in CA without tackling the mental illness/drug addiction issue.

▪️Remember, CA has a unique homeless issue compared to the rest of the country, as they have by far the most unsheltered homeless, 51% of the entire US! These are, on average, a much different group than the sheltered homeless and require a different approach.
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-1.pdf