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San Jose has about the same number of homeless people as San Francisco (~7000, according to recent reports). This article says that San Jose is also the more e
by legerdemain 4y ago
San Jose has about the same number of homeless people as San Francisco (~7000, according to recent reports).
This article says that San Jose is also the more expensive city to rent in.
Can we please redirect our ire toward San Jose as the out-of-touch, overpriced, misgoverned city that no one sane wants to call home?
- kelnos 4y agoSJ has 3.5x the land area of SF; 7000 homeless people are much more obvious and visible in such a smaller place.
- epicureanideal 4y agoSan Jose still feels somewhat better. There seem to be more suburban areas where parking is easy, the weather is nice, and there are restaurants and coffee shops that are in good repair. Also, San Jose seems more spread out (and does have 170k, 20% more population), so the homeless problem seems less concentrated.
- mslate 4y agoSan Jose is both larger by population and geography so the homelessness per square mile and per capita are lower than SF.
- fragmede 4y ago> There seem to be more suburban areas where parking is easy, That's not a selling point for people that are looking for city living. There's a tiny walkable downtown area but that's it. (Though I haven't been there in years and years and years, so maybe that's changed.)
- szundi 4y agoThe issue probably stems from the fact that San Francisco residents are overrepresented here.
- legerdemain 4y agoSF and San Jose have tech workforce of roughly the same size (~350K people). San Jose is, however, significantly more focused on legacy corporations (Oracle, Cisco, IBM). It's also the city of subcontractor companies and rent-a-developer jobs. It has basically zero "tech enthusiast" culture of meetups, reading groups, hackathons, and tech communities. My experience with people from San Jose is that they like beer and church.
- reducesuffering 4y ago> My experience with people from San Jose is that they like beer and church. That's an odd stereotype for one of the least-religious places in the US.
- legerdemain 4y agoI have never, anywhere else I've lived in the US, overheard more conversations between young men trying to get into church youth leadership, or how to contribute back to the church, or who are promising people to proselytize to, or who is "straying" and how to fix that, or confessing their weaknesses to each other, than I have eating out in South Bay restaurants. As in, as recently as last Friday, I spent an entire dinner night out eating steamed dumplings and overhearing this exact conversation. I've heard it in restaurants and I've heard it in cafes and I've heard it from people just chatting outside. Discussing their admiration for their pastor, or comparing notes about the churches their friends attend. I can easily expect to overhear a "church conversation" by just going to a social place on any given day. It must be some kind of little-known secret that South Bay is really, really churchy.
- culi 4y agoThe reason cities tend to have such high populations of houseless people is because all the nearby suburbs and exurbs bus their houseless to the nearest city. San Jose's high houseless population likely has a lot more to do with it being situated closer to a bunch of bougie counties than "governance"
- simple-thoughts 4y agoI think that’s the first time I’ve seen “blood and soil” used as a solution to homelessness. No, people do not have some land their “blood” is tied to where they “naturally” belong. Suburban communities do not own homeless people that either were born there or as is usually the case are trying to prey upon families there.