Homelessness is often a faceless crisis. We spent three months talking to the residents of an encampment in Oakland… https://t.co/cAS3ba3CAW

I met a former boxer whose house in Paradise burned down; a woman whose house was destroyed by fire in Lake County;… https://t.co/NISc96WvV4

Other people recounted personal catastrophes – falling from a ladder, breaking a hip. When you fall down in America… https://t.co/YgqsHlXy6r

There were babies in this camp; I met an eight-year-old girl who lives in a shack but who somehow manages to commute to school every day.

I spent a good stretch of my career in much poorer countries. The conditions in some California encampments are in the same league.

@thomasfullerNYT And yet California has some of the wealthiest people in the world. Truly abhorrent. That dystopi… https://t.co/m6TyQjUYIF

.@ashestodust80: @thomasfullerNYT is employed by one of world's richest men to push billionaire-friendly policies: loose borders, free trade, globalism. Those are the same policies that have helped increase homelessness. Fuller is also paid to blame everyone except billionaires.