The Homeless Economy
Mayor Karen Bass has turned Los Angeles into a magnet for the street homeless. The numbers are shocking: • 64% are from outside the City of LA • 40% are from outside California • 6% are from outside the United States pic.twitter.com/4HHsSQM2Xw — Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) May 19, 2026 Christopher Rufo's reporting on the Haitian migrant problems in Springfield, OH and Charleroi, PA for City Journal had an impact on the 2024 election. In those pieces, he showed the economic interdependency of NGOs, landlords, sweatshop employeers, car dealers, and others in making money out of resettling Haitian migrants in "temporary protected status". Such programs have major impacts on native-born members of surrounding communities, including landlords who evict longtime tenants to get higher rents from overcrowded units rented to migrants, for instance. Rufo is now starting to take a similar approach in a piece posted on his website: More Than Half of L.A.'s Stre...