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For San Francisco, 71% had housing in the city before becoming homeless, 19% were from CA and only 10% from the rest of the USA. http://www.socketsite.com/archi

For San Francisco, 71% had housing in the city before becoming homeless, 19% were from CA and only 10% from the rest of the USA. http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/02/san-franciscos-homeless-crisis-is-homegrown.html http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/02/san-franciscos-ho... The homeless rate here is similar to that in New York, but New York has a right to shelter so far fewer sleep on the streets than in San Francisco. It's less that the mild weather makes CA more attractive, more that it lets CA governments ignore the problem.

abvdasker 8y ago
I had not heard these statistics before but they are very informative. I live in New York but visit SF often for my job. Every time I visit I am shocked all over again at the extent of the homelessness and poverty right next to obscene levels of wealth from tech. I always assumed New York just had fewer homeless but these statistics prove that the CA government has instead completely and utterly failed to support this population of people. In general, San Francisco seems like a terrible place to live.