Internet based propaganda and disinformation are protected by freedom of the press, and should remain protected. It is up to the reader to parse and verify truth. No one says the "flat earth society" or the "moon hoax" people should be punished. While I disagree with what many people say online and have different views, the freedom to publish anything, including propaganda and disinformation is sacred and should be protected.
Why is that a bad sentiment? People downsize homes all the time.
Anecdotal, but my own parents moved away from Chicago to rural Michigan when the economics just didn't add up. Chicago housing is hundreds of thousands, where as rural Michigan you can buy a good single family home for under $100k. Cheap enough to support a family off of a minimum wage job (and I mean real minimum wage, $8.50 an hour for Michigan).
"Several homeless families whose children attend local schools told the Guardian that they had considered moving to cheaper real estate markets, such as the agricultural Central Valley, but there were no jobs there."
Buy why not look evan farther? The US is much larger than California. There are places which much cheaper costs of living in the midwest and the south. Seems stubborn that you must stay in California.
These "outsiders" are themselves fellow Americans or immigrants who uprooted their lives in search of economic prosperity.
Maybe I am misunderstanding something but is seems foolish to me to sit in a single location and complain that the right economic conditions for my success are not at my current location and refuse to move (especially ironic since we live in a capitalistic market economy, jobs are constantly changing and resources moving around).
It's that what all immigrants do? Uprooting for economic reasons is pretty common, (immigration, children moving away from parents, etc). If anything they (and we as a society) should be thankful that there is the opportunity to move unrestricted in a large and diverse nation.