The scale of California’s homelessness problem is difficult to fathom.

According to a report from the Public Policy Institute of California, more than 115,000 people in California in 2022 were unsheltered. That accounts for half of all the homeless in the entire country.

I’d point to Los Angeles, city and county both, as the epicenter of the tragedy. L.A.’s Homeless Services Authority’s 2022 count found nearly 69,000 homeless across the county.

In 2020, a group of residents and business owners filed a lawsuit, trying to force L.A. city and county both to address the crisis. U.S. District Court Judge David Carter has been presiding, pushing the myriad alphabet agencies and billions of budget dollars into something like a serious plan of action.

It isn’t working. 

Last week, the parties were in court, looking for a settlement.

Notably absent from the whole process, I should point out, is California Governor Gavin Newsom.

Everyone in California should be asking about his abject failure to address th unprecedented and avoidable disaster of homelessness.