almost 70% of the cities surveyed in the first report have passed at least one or more new laws specifically targeting homeless people since january 2002, making it increasingly difficult to survive on the streets. further, this report finds las vegas , san francisco, new york city , los angeles , and atlanta to be the top five "meanest" cities in the united states for poor and homeless people to live in; california is the "meanest" state, followed by florida as the second "meanest.