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In addition, homelessness is mainly a result of mental health issues (not entirely, ok) - and not housing prices. And many homeless come to LA and SF from othe
by demadog 6y ago
In addition, homelessness is mainly a result of mental health issues (not entirely, ok) - and not housing prices.
And many homeless come to LA and SF from other areas that are not as friendly to the homeless. Which is why there are a lot less in Dallas suburbs than downtown LA.
- slg 6y agoYou are pretty reductive in your description of homeless people. Sure, some people end up in that situation because of mental illness or move to these areas after already becoming homeless, but that is not the majority of homeless people. >L.A.H.S.A.’s 2019 homeless count found that 64 percent of the 58,936 Los Angeles County residents experiencing homelessness had lived in the city for more than 10 years. Less than a fifth (18 percent) said they had lived out of state before becoming homeless. >More than half of the people surveyed in Los Angeles cited economic hardship as the primary reason that they fell into homelessness. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/homeless-population.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/homeless-population.ht...