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The vast majority of homeless people in SF are long-term residents. Please stop spreading this malicious rumor.
by idlewords 10y ago
The vast majority of homeless people in SF are long-term residents. Please stop spreading this malicious rumor.
- wyager 10y agoSource? I've lived in CA for over 12 years, and most of the homeless I talked to were out of state (a lot of NV and AZ). How is this claim "malicious"?
- idlewords 10y agoSource is in this SF survey linked multiple places in this thread: https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Fran.... The reason I call it malicious is that it serves a Malthusian argument where doing more to help the homeless will just attract more homeless people to San Francisco, so we might as well not do anything.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoPeople like to quote the "living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless" numbers but they include people who were in subsidized housing or crashing on friends' couches. I believe we'd get much lower stats from a better survey that focused on how many of them had an effective plan to support themselves when they moved here.