Curious about the homeless rates in Miami vs SF, I used the links at the bottom of this comment to estimate 1570 homeless living in Miami city limits vs 7754 li

Curious about the homeless rates in Miami vs SF, I used the links at the bottom of this comment to estimate 1570 homeless living in Miami city limits vs 7754 living in SF. With SF's larger population, this corresponds to a 0.35% homeless rate in Miami vs 0.95% in SF. Trying to capture more of how the homeless problem would "feel" from the perspective of someone walking around the city, I also calculated the homeless people per square mile of the two cities as Miami: 43.61, and SF: 165.33. By either metric, SF does measure out worse than Miami by 3-4x [Current Miami-Dade county homeless counts: 3738](https://web.archive.org/web/20220827094121/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article264649299.html https://web.archive.org/web/20220827094121/https://www.miami...) [Miami city population: 439,890 at time of posting](https://www.google.com/search?q=miami+city+population&sxsrf=AJOqlzX_0WLoLtQztTuv59x5UIGl7vm_aw%3A1674333109154&ei=tUvMY8CTCfeC0PEP7LKPiAg&ved=0ahUKEwiAwtPxwNn8AhV3ATQIHWzZA4EQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=miami+city+population&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIMCAAQDRCABBBGEPsBMgcIABANEIAEMgYIABAHEB4yBAgAEB4yBAgAEB4yBAgAEB4yBggAEAgQHjIGCAAQCBAeMgYIABAIEB4yBggAEAgQHjoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoHCAAQsAMQQzoNCAAQ5AIQ1gQQsAMYAToPCC4Q1AIQyAMQsAMQQxgCOgsIABAIEAcQHhDxBDoICAAQCBAHEB46CQgAEAgQHhDxBEoECEEYAEoECEYYAVCWDVipHWD7HmgBcAF4AIABUYgBpAWSAQIxMJgBAKABAcgBEcABAdoBBggBEAEYCdoBBggCEAEYCA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp https://www.google.com/search?q=miami+city+population&sxsrf=...) [Proportion of Miami county homeless located in the city proper: 42%](http://ci.miami.fl.us/communitydevelopment/conplan/content/09homnee.htm#:~:text=It%20should%20be%20noted%20that%20MHAP%20estimates%20that%2042%20percent,756%20homeless%20families%20with%20children http://ci.miami.fl.us/communitydevelopment/conplan/content/0....) [SF homeless population: 7754 people](https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population#:~:text=Number%20of%20People%20Experiencing%20Homelessness%20during%20each%20PIT%20Count%2C%202005%2D2022&text=Under%20the%202022%20PIT%20Count,homeless%20population%20from%202019%20%E2%80%93%202022 https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population#....) [SF total population: 815,201](https://www.google.com/search?q=san+francisco+city+population&sxsrf=AJOqlzUwdwxFJyDlrz7y8_ih1JCG0ypJZQ%3A1674333659938&ei=203MY6n0OKXL9AOCnIyIDQ&oq=&gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAxgAMgcIIxDqAhAnMgcIIxDqAhAnMgcIIxDqAhAnMgcIIxDqAhAnMgcIIxDqAhAnMgcIIxDqAhAnMgcIIxDqAhAnMgcIIxDqAhAnMgcIIxDqAhAnMgcIIxDqAhAnMgwIABDqAhC0AhBDGAEyDAgAEOoCELQCEEMYATIMCAAQ6gIQtAIQQxgBMgwIABDqAhC0AhBDGAEyDAgAEOoCELQCEEMYATINCC4QjwEQ6gIQtAIYAjINCAAQjwEQ6gIQtAIYAjINCAAQjwEQ6gIQtAIYAjINCC4QjwEQ6gIQtAIYAjINCAAQjwEQ6gIQtAIYAjoKCAAQRxDWBBCwAzoHCAAQsAMQQ0oECEEYAEoECEYYAVCoAlioAmDLHGgCcAF4AIABAIgBAJIBAJgBAKABAbABFMgBCsABAdoBBggBEAEYAdoBBggCEAEYCg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp https://www.google.com/search?q=san+francisco+city+populatio...) [Miami land area: 36.00 sq mi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami) [SF land area: 46.9 sq mi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#:~:text=It%20covers%20a%20land%20area,five%20New%20York%20City%20boroughs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco#:~:text=It%20cov....)