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> A priori it seems astoundingly unlikely to me that rent prices are causing people to become homeless at the margins.... There's a huge gap in means between so
by kansface 5y ago
> A priori it seems astoundingly unlikely to me that rent prices are causing people to become homeless at the margins.... There's a huge gap in means between someone who just barely can't afford rent in SF and someone who lives on the street in SF.
Citizens at the margins who can't find a place don't go directly to the streets - they crash with family, then friends, then live in their car (until they can't afford to move it). Most homeless in SF are invisible. Getting this cohort into an apartment is mostly dependent on having affordable apartments.
- Tiktaalik 5y agoThere was an explosion of street homelessness in Vancouver in 2020, with 400 some people eventually occupying a park. Everyone was on /r/vancouver was like "where did all these people come from?!" Well it's as you say. They were the "hidden homeless," couch surfing at their friends. All of a sudden the pandemic hit and these publicly owned social housing apartments added new rules saying "no guests" and such, and suddenly boom, you see the real amount of homeless.