Just looked up some numbers to shed some light on the proportions of these problems: - SF has had a homeless population of 6200~6500 over the last 15 years -

Just looked up some numbers to shed some light on the proportions of these problems: - SF has had a homeless population of 6200~6500 over the last 15 years - SF spends $~240M per year on homeless services, about $35k per person (excluding police, medical and other indirect services) * $112M of that on supportive housing, $40M on shelters/transitional housing, $27M rental subsidies/eviction prevention - spending has increased by $84M since 2011 when Ed Lee took office - NYC spends about $1B but seems to have a homeless populat of about 60,000 (~10x that of SF) Pretty disheartening to see the amount of resources that have already poured into solving the problem without seeming very successful.