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What about red states bussing homeless to the west coast? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/homeless-busing-seattle-san-francisco.html https://www.nytimes.
by r00fus 5y ago
What about red states bussing homeless to the west coast?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/homeless-busing-seattle-san-francisco.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/homeless-busing-seattl...
Until it's not possible to simply ship your problems away (kind of like how we handle recycling), governments are incentivized to do the wrong things.
- whakim 5y agoThe article you cited literally states that only 5 percent of Washington state's unhoused population became homeless out of the state.
- whimsicalism 5y ago> only 5 percent of Washington state's unhoused population became homeless out of the state. homeless is an incredibly broad term. i would be curious in the numbers split across different subsets, like homeless with schizophrenia.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoIf we want to know the magnitude of states shipping homeless people away, we need to start measuring how many had been supporting themselves. I’ve seen studies about California homelessness where a participant was counted as in-state if they bussed here and crashed on a friend’s couch for a little while.
- whakim 5y agoLook, I don't know the actual numbers, but the GP cited "red states busing their homeless population" and then cited a NYT article about this very issue where the numbers presented contradicted that claim. If you do know of studies which have more actual data on this issue, please link to them so we can all learn more - this seems to be one of those issues where there's a lot of emotion but far less actual data!
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