City with the worst problem of homelessness? (Los Angeles, people, quality)

[TheseGoTo11]

Originally Posted by Northeasterner1970

Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is also really bad. Just as bad as any of the notorious westcoast homeless skid row like areas.

Downtown Eastside Vancouver is probably the worst I've ever seen, makes parts of the Tenderloin look gentrified.

[Drewjdeg]

Of the places I have been to recently:

LA is the worst, and a lot of the cities along the coast in the California are bad too: Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo. Didn't notice many around Pasadena though.

I also saw a lot of homeless in Oklahoma City; could've just been the area though. Salt Lake City is really bad around Pioneer Park and on the light rail.

[Zedd90]

California cities are definitely the worst.

[Gfitz1010]

I haven’t seen a place worst that LA.

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by Drewjdeg

Of the places I have been to recently:

LA is the worst, and a lot of the cities along the coast in the California are bad too: Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo. Didn't notice many around Pasadena though.

I also saw a lot of homeless in Oklahoma City; could've just been the area though. Salt Lake City is really bad around Pioneer Park and on the light rail.

I suspect Oklahoma City has developed a reputation of being fairly kind to the homeless and so draws them.

[Zedd90]

California cities may be even worst than Chicago. I see a few here and there in Chicago, but in Cali I see a homeless person on almost every block.

[TheMarino]

Charlotte is going to be up there in the next few decades, many moving from even more expensive areas, prices for rent and buying are skyrocketing along with stagnant wages.

[18Montclair]

Originally Posted by ccm123

LA, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle is where I’ve seen this the most frequently.

It's horrendous here in the East Bay too.

[waronxmas]

I don't mean this to be invective, but LA has a homelessness situation akin to some of the mega cities in South and Southeast Asia. Given the size of the city it's by far the "worst".

[waronxmas]

Originally Posted by Drewjdeg

Of the places I have been to recently:

LA is the worst, and a lot of the cities along the coast in the California are bad too: Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo. Didn't notice many around Pasadena though.

Was just recently in LA and spent a good amount of time in the city proper and Pasadena and totally agree. For the locals, is Pasadena doing something "special" or is it just a matter of it's location. It is a bit of a hike to get to LA proper from there.