I guess I never really experienced the homeless towns when I've been to LA, but I know what you're referring to....when I went to SF, in the Tenderloin area - my god. The amount of zombie homeless people walking around was unreal - there was a dude that stumbled into a Peet's coffee I stopped into and he could have been an extra on the Thriller set. I also saw plenty of the affluent beggars. I think states were shipping them to SF due to SF's policies on providing care. I've heard the same thing happens to Hawaii and Hawaii sends them back on a oneway ticket wherever they came from