It's well known that TX cities (especially in the Dallas area) routinely just buy the homeless a bus ticket to cites they know will tolerate them. Certainly it's a step up from what TX used to do before the late 90s/early 2000s -- jail them for vagrancy.

Still, the fact that TX knew they'd accept this type of exiling and that the situation has persisted for as long as it has suggests that CA isn't really interested in solving the homelessness problem. Sure, TX solves it "in the most ass way possible" by either exile or imprisonment, but that doesn't give CA a "blank check" to waste hundreds of millions of dollars a year yet still fail to address the problem. Considering the state the homeless share over in LA, even establishing a penal colony on marginal land they have likely would have been an improvement on the situation (sadly). OH WAIT, 90%+ of land in CA is federally "protected" or otherwise artificially limited from colonization. No wonder they can't afford to get housed.