California has invested more than 20-billion dollars over the past five fiscal years to address homelessness. Numbers from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated that 181-thousand people experienced homelessness in the Golden State last year. That’s an increase of 63-thousand over the past ten years. KTLA reports California spent seven-point-two-billion in the 2021-2022 fiscal year, which equated to nearly 42-thousand dollars per homeless individual. That spending includes physical and mental health outreach and housing and rental assistance.