What percentage of a population being homeless is practically acceptable?
It's no surprise that a government agency spent money without monitoring the effect of the spending, but there's a different question I want to focus on, and I honestly don't know the answer.
According to the article, California's homeless population is 180,000 people. That's a lot of people, as a raw number. But in a state with a population of 39,000,000, it's less than half of one percent. 99.6% of the population is housed.
What's a socially acceptable percentage of homelessness? Obviously zero would be the ideal, but living here in the real world, what is acceptable and what is catastrophic failure? Is only 99.6% of the population being housed a catastrophic failure?
I honestly don't know.