> it shouldn’t go unchallenged. Well, you should talk to the homeless people then. I live in SF and am on first-name terms with close to 20 homeless people. Al

> it shouldn’t go unchallenged. Well, you should talk to the homeless people then. I live in SF and am on first-name terms with close to 20 homeless people. All but one of them came from outside SF. You'll often hear of "point in time" surveys which claim that 70% of homeless people lived in SF when the became homeless. But this is a self-reported survey, without any proof, and the definition of "lived" is very loose: even if you were living in a homeless shelter and got evicted, you'd be classified as having "lived in SF when you became homeless". I read an interview of a homeless woman from Minnesota, who explicitly said: I had a choice: would I rather be homeless in Minnesota, or homeless in San Francisco; so I hopped on a bus and came to SF. SF has a very permissive culture, and an open drug scene, so it is attractive to anybody who's homeless.