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Rents and housing costs are definitely a problem in L.A. and in urban California generally. Homelessness has a variety of causes mainly because dumb Republicans like Ronald Reagan defunded and closed down the state mental health system, releasing thousands of seriously mentally ill out onto the streets. Not all homeless dirty bums shooting up drugs and talking to themselves. For every dumpster dweller there are hundreds more sleeping in vehicles or couch surfing. The white working classes and poor have all but been ethnically cleansed from urban California the past 30 years.

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