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Is that an accurate count? That actually sounds surprisingly low. I figured it was quite a bit higher.
by fleshdaddy 5y ago
Is that an accurate count? That actually sounds surprisingly low. I figured it was quite a bit higher.
- redis_mlc 5y ago- The reported SF outdoors homeless numbers vary from 5,000 - 10,000 - But it depends on what data you have and how you slice it: - 60% of the $300 - $350 million homeless budget goes to welfare rentals (single women and moms are eligible for that, rarely men), so that's 15,000+ adults plus children alone - there's probably more than 10,000 on the street, and growing daily as average rents are over $3,500/month now. As you can see, with a population of only 500,000 and almost 5% of thoe homeless, SF has a major problem. What the EU learned from African economic migration is that once somebody is in their regionn, authoriities have to process them one by one, which can take years per case. So once a city gets behind, there's no good story.
- katabatic 5y agoThat's nearly 1% of the population of San Francisco. It's already shockingly high.