Sounds a bit semi-urban to me if there's good transit connections. But yeah to your point I don't think homeless prompted people to leave urban areas, people l

Sounds a bit semi-urban to me if there's good transit connections. But yeah to your point I don't think homeless prompted people to leave urban areas, people leaving urban areas caused homelessness. The causality is reversed, is my point. The reason people left, as alluded to above, was largely government subsidy + good marketing/lobbying by suburb developers, auto companies, and road builders.