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The "homeless people move to SF thing" is significant, but often overstated: "[The] survey showed that 71% of San Francisco’s street people had formerly been h
by nickpinkston 6y ago
The "homeless people move to SF thing" is significant, but often overstated:
"[The] survey showed that 71% of San Francisco’s street people had formerly been housed in the city."
http://www.housethehomeless.org/myths-about-homelessness/ http://www.housethehomeless.org/myths-about-homelessness/
- throwaway189262 6y agoHoused for how long? It's common for people with mental and substance abuse issues to move in and out of housing transiently because they frequently lose their jobs. There's a recent example of numerous homeless coming to the city because the mayor promised housing during corona https://abc7news.com/homeless-in-san-francisco-coronavirus-sf-help/6158835/ https://abc7news.com/homeless-in-san-francisco-coronavirus-s...
- hindsightbias 6y agoThere was a time you could do time or lose a job and come back to a SRO unit. Not like anyone warned there was a problem: https://thebolditalic.com/life-inside-sf-s-vanishing-single-resident-occupancies-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-20bf7aa0b3c8 https://thebolditalic.com/life-inside-sf-s-vanishing-single-...
- throwaway189262 6y agoThe huge expense of housing is due to insane NIMBYism that somehow gets tied to progressive policies. Protect the children, the forest, the neighborhood. There's enough laws going around to protect everything that nothing can change at all. And it may or may not be intentional that this housing shortage increases property values. My theory is that red states distaste for regulations discourages everyone from weaseling housing policies for their own interest. Housing is definitely cheaper in cities within red states. And in my experience there's less homeless, which may be directly correlated.