REPORT: For The First Time, More People Are Leaving California Than Moving In

And let's look at some reasons why.

The Gateway Pundit

"Progressive policies are hurting the state of California.
"It is now known for high taxes, a massive homeless problem, disease in the cities, and human waste in the streets.
"All of this combined is causing people to flee the state.
"The Associated Press reports:

California still most populous, but stalls at 39.9 millionMore people are leaving California than moving in, evidence of the toll the state’s housing crisis is taking as the world’s fifth largest economy inches toward 40 million people.An estimate released Friday by the California Department of Finance put the California’s population at 39.96 million, just shy of the 40 million milestone demographers had predicted the state would have passed by now.The report shows California added more than 180,000 people when accounting for births and deaths for the 12 month period ending July 1. But when you include people who moved in and out of the state, California lost 39,500.State officials say it is the first time since the 2010 census that more people left California than moved in over the course of a year, contributing to the state’s slowest recorded growth rate since 1900.“People won’t move here because they can’t afford to come in the door,” said Dowell Myers, professor of policy, planning and demography at the University of Southern California. “The jobs are there. The people aren’t there.”More than 158,000 people moved to California over the 12 month period that ended July 1. But more than 197,000 people left.

"The homeless crisis is definitely one of the driving factors here.

"NBC News reports:

HUD estimates 2.7 percent rise in U.S. homelessness due to California housing crisis . . .

All emphases in the original. 

Bring it on! Trump and California Governor Newsom battle over California’s homeless crisis  "California is now a national laughingstock. It’s one-party state government, totally dominated by Democrats, has so badly bungled its treatment of homelessness (not to mention its stratospheric taxes) that its major cities are becoming unlivable, notorious for sidewalks covered in excrement, open drug use by people swarming over parks, sidewalks and spare plots of land under freeway overpasses, and taxpayers fleeing. A huge portion of Californians are actively considering leaving (one in four of the total population; 82% of 18 to 19 year olds), as poignant an index of government failure as can be imagined, short of anarchy or genocide.
"Gavin Newsom, the governor, once was considered a potential future president, despite his despicable personal history (having seduced the wife of one of his best friends), but the crisis on his watch is making that a pipedream now. So what does he do? You probably already have guessed the of course, he blames Trump! Leah Barkoukis reports:
"The Office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom touted its efforts in combating the homeless crisis in the state and took shots at the Trump administration even as federal data shows it is responsible for the uptick in the U.S.'s overall homeless population." . . . 

Ben Carson: I hoped to find more 'urgency in the leadership' in California on homelessness

Homelessness crisis: From houseboats to boulders, unconventional methods used to tackle problem in 2019

Democrat solution: blame President Trump or any Republican within arm's length.