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California population = 39.51M = 161,548 homeless [1] (0.41% of total population) 72% = 116315 people 1. https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/ ht
by NiceWayToDoIT 5y ago
California population = 39.51M
= 161,548 homeless [1] (0.41% of total population)
72% = 116315 people
1. https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/ https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/
Somehow, I thought that figure is significantly larger, when I visited SF, CA - walking around town I could see homeless people everywhere.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoMany years ago, I took a college class through SFSU called Homelessness and Public Policy. My recollection: New York was ten times the overall population as San Francisco and the two cities had about the same number of homeless. The problem in San Francisco is pretty bad. It's not equally bad across the state. I ran some numbers at one time and concluded that per capita, homelessness was twice as bad in San Diego as in Fresno, for example. So it's not evenly distributed across the entire state. San Francisco is especially badly impacted from what I gather.