Yes, there's lots of homeless people who come from other parts of the country for the weather and looking for a handout. Too bad the states where they came from harassed them and/or made it illegal to be homeless.
You see, we happen to be more humane, to a fault, which is our downfall, but unlike the red states, we're working on it. We don't punish the homeless. I hate seeing it as well but I'm not going to shoot them or set them on fire, like some do in other states.
As for heading in the direction of a 3rd world country, that applies to all of America, as long as inequality is allowed to grow and unregulated capitalism is favored by the aristocrats, who'd love to turn this place into Russia Lite: less democracy, more corruption.
All the best,
Nonoise