In 2024, Netflix released the four part docuseries American Conspiracy: Th...

Based on the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) point-in-time survey, homelessness was in steady decline across the United States from the early 2000s through 2016. That means the explosion in homelessness and tent cities that’s now being seen in places like Los Angeles, Oakland, and Seattle ostensibly happened in the last 10 years.

That doesn’t jibe wi...