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If you don't live in California, you wish you lived in California.

No, not really. I lived in California for awhile. I was very happy to it as a I left it going back to sane states. A place where I can water my lawn and not paint it. Yes, they where painting their lawns green when I was there.

You may have one of the highest economies but it isn't a healthy economy, with 700B in debt. At 13.9% you also have the highest tax rate. Do you know what the tax rate in that my state is? It's 0%.

http://www.businessinsider.com...

You also have one of the fastest growing homeless problems. You share that with New York. Wonder what you and NY have in common?

https://endhomelessness.org/ho...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

I have already address California's water dependency before so there is no need to rehash it. Other than to say with out taking water from other states California wouldn't be able to do any where near as much as it tries to do.

But the worse sin that California forces on the rest of the country is that shreeking fool Maxine Waters. You know if you would get rid of her then we could work together on the rest of your problems.

But unlike Nazi Germany, our economy is actually doing quite well.

No, and also no, and have I mentioned no?

Our economy is doing quite shit. And the information is right there if you want the truth, not the comforting lies like the "unemployment rate", which has been a blatant out and out lie as long as I can remember.

And an even better yet question, is how many cannot afford a house or apartment in which to put a computer and get internet service at?

In 2016 there were over 0.5 million homeless people in the united states. (I would bet that is an extremely low estimate).
The State of Homelessness in America 2016

Fucking priorities man.

I really don't think so. Using the US as an example. The best numbers I can find put the homeless population at around 610,000 in the US at the end of 2013 out of 315 million people total. Numbers from here:
http://www.endhomelessness.org...
https://www.hudexchange.info/r...

There are far more efficient (and less dumb) ideas attempting to address the specific causes of homelessness in the US, instead of literally throwing money at the problem to see if it will magically poof away. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Better drug rehab programs, better care for disabled and PTSD-afflicted veterans, better coordination of outreach programs - all of these have a real hope for addressing the root causes behind homelessness.

Homelessness is often correlated with mental illness, which is preponderant in men. Next.

Yes physical and mental issues do contribute to homelessness but the overwhelming cause of homelessness is the lack of affordable housing.

From National Alliance to End Homelessness:

While circumstances can vary, the main reason people experience homelessness is because they cannot find housing they can afford. It is the scarcity of affordable housing in the United States, particularly in more urban areas where homelessness is more prevalent, that is behind their inability to acquire or maintain housing.

By the numbers:

There are 633,782 people experiencing homelessness on any given night in the United States.
Of that number, 239,403 are people in families, and
394,379 are individuals.
Slightly fewer than 16 percent of the homeless population are considered "chronically homeless,"and
About 13 percent of homeless adults- 62,619 - are veterans.

These numbers come from point-in-time counts, which are conducted, community by community, on a single night in January every other year. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires communities to submit this data every other year in order to qualify for federal homeless assistance funds. Many communities conduct counts more regularly.

Those are battered women shelters. Domestic abuse is still heavily skewed towards women being victims, largely because they are on average physically weaker.

Wrong. There are homeless shelters that specialize in single homeless women and women with children. These are not spousal abuse shelters which requires abuse to have taken place and actively involve local law enforcement.

Here is a directory of homeless shelters.

I agree that some feminist claims, as well as laws designed to deal with male supremacy need to be revisited. But your examples aren't helping your argument.

I don't understand how homelessness counters feminist claims but you really need to research your answers.

HMIS systems are a key piece of the "Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness", which although it may be unrealistic, is an interesting read. An open soure HMIS can be found here

Actually, there are around 840,000 homeless people on any given night and over 1% of the entire US population experiences homelessness at some time in a year. 20% of those homeless are "chronically homeless". Homelessness is directly related to the availability of affordable housing.

See the National Alliance to End Homelessness