There should be reasonable lag time of a month or so. That way the landlord has time to perform maintenance between tenants.

Such houses do not exist. A minimum wage dish washing job barely pays enough to eat off of.

Your gross take home from a minimum wage part time job is $145/week. Before all taxes and deductions.

You can’t afford a closet is crack hiuse on that “salary” even in the boonies.

Even in my LCOL areas places that were like $400/month 5 or 6 years ago are over $1000/month.

I believe that you overestimate the ability / desire for someone to move even if there are more opportunities there.

A person's friends, family, social support... and frankly, modern culture can make moving a sticky problem.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/time-series/de...

The rate of people moving between states has dropped significantly.

https://www2.census.gov/library/visualizations/time-series/d...

The people moving within the same city has stayed rather constant, it is the distance moves that have dropped - https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizat...

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I believe that if you offered homeless people in Oakland a job and a house in Kentucky that they could pay off in 10 years while working as a dish washer, you would have very few takers.

I would also suggest that the town that has the dishwashing job in Kentucky - that business is likely to close in 5 years and there won't be any more unskilled jobs in the town and they'll be out of a job and unable to pay the mortgage, get foreclosed and be homeless again -- they know that story.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't - homeless in California is known while a homeless in Kentucky is something else with even fewer opportunities out.

The dish washer jobs pays less than minimum wage under the table, beacuse the government flew desperate people from the poorest part of the planet to town to compete with the existing dishwashers.

Homelessness in San Francisco doesn't kill you from the elements in January or July. A homeless person in Minneapolis or Chicago in January may die from the elements on an excessively cold night. A homeless person in Arizona in July can also die from it being too hot.

It's rarely ever too hot or too cold in costal California cities.

It might be correlated, and it might making a difference at the margins (eg the people who have a job and can afford to live in a car). But the vast majority of the homeless population does not fit in that margin. Most of them do have other problems preventing them from getting any job, like severe mental health, substance abuse, or criminal records. Affordability is a moot point when employment is unattainable.