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Was just listening to https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07q4ngz https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07q4ngz (WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough
by flurdy 7y ago
Was just listening to https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07q4ngz https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07q4ngz (WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain).
Spoiler: Yes. The city of 900,000 has more rough sleepers / homeless than the country of 65 million.
And I think England has way too many homeless. Don't really see any out where I live (rural town in Hampshire) but I do see a lot of unfortunate ones in the cities.
At least compared to where I grew up where there were very few homeless people https://www.quora.com/Are-there-homeless-people-in-Norway https://www.quora.com/Are-there-homeless-people-in-Norway
- trevyn 7y agoThere was a Ross Kemp episode about how the British counts of rough sleepers could be very wrong; many towns with official counts of zero having visible dozens, etc.
- dagw 7y agoThat was covered in the podcast. Their conclusion however was that since England and San Francisco both used the same methodology, they're probably wrong in the same direction and by roughly the same amount. So while you cannot conclusively say that SF has more rough sleepers than all of England (not Britain) it's not unreasonable to believe so, and either way the actual numbers are probably very close.