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Unsheltered homeless count is up 65% since 2005 [1], and property crime has doubled since 2009 [2]. So there's a reason people think SF is going downhill. A 1
by verteu 3y ago
Unsheltered homeless count is up 65% since 2005 [1], and property crime has doubled since 2009 [2].
So there's a reason people think SF is going downhill.
A 1991 paper [3] estimates homelessness at 535.1/100,000, about half the current rate [4].
[1] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population
[2] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rate-and-property-crime-rate https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rat...
[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1749371/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1749371/
[4] https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francisco-problems/sf-homelessness-data https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francis...
- snypher 3y agoHumans are great at short term trends and terrible at long term numbers I guess. Edit; three months ago the weather was so much cooler, at this rate it will be 150F on Xmas!
- more_corn 3y agoYou obviously haven’t been recently. Go check it out. I’ll accept your apology when you return.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoSo there's a reason people think SF is going downhill. Something to do with using scarce housing stock for short-term rentals instead of housing residents I assume.