PROGRESS? California’s homeless number drops a little as programs appear to pay off. “Investing billions of dollars in affordable housing and homeless programs in recent years has apparently put the brakes on what had been a surge in California’s homeless population, causing it to dip by 1 percent this year, a federal report released Monday showed.”

Billions for a one percent drop? Color me unimpressed. And incensed, if I were still a California taxpayer.