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Your arguments aren't even supported by the data. Why do Hawaii and Alaska find themselves in places with high levels of homelessness? How do you even get to ei
by bastawhiz 3y ago
Your arguments aren't even supported by the data. Why do Hawaii and Alaska find themselves in places with high levels of homelessness? How do you even get to either of those places without a significant up-front investment? You're not exactly hitchhiking to Juno.
Similarly, by your logic, how does Illinois have such low homelessness per capita? Chicago is romanticized plenty.
Moreover, as the post points out, the majority of people who are homeless in cities like SF have been there for a very long time and had been there before becoming homeless. The anecdote about your wife would suggest that she would have been well in the minority.
- uberman 3y agoI dont know anything about Hawaii but Alaska and many other places with high Native American populations have high homelessness because substance abuse, mental health issues and poverty are a plague on them. Homelessness is a problem on Pine Ridge in South Dakota where you can place down a used double wide for 10k. I appreciate that I am not an expert in this area and that my wife and her group of friends living on the edge of homelessness could be an anomaly but my lived experience of SF tells me otherwise.