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Worth noting that most of the homeless population in California is from California: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/california-homelessness-ho

Worth noting that most of the homeless population in California is from California: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/california-homelessness-housing-crisis/674737/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/california... (https://archive.is/gm1wq https://archive.is/gm1wq) It seems our problems with homelessness stem mostly from high housing costs and our dysfunctional homeless industrial complex.

hot_gril 3y ago
I find it hard to believe that people who could no longer afford a home in CA became homeless instead of moving to a cheaper state. Or at the city level, I really doubt the homeless people in SF are from SF.
diogenescynic 3y ago
I don't believe that study at all--it's published by people with an agenda who want to slant reality so they keep getting funding. When I see homeless people and talk to them, they openly admin they're from out of state and came here for the drugs and weather. There are people like this guy I've met who are very open about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGaWD2GMh8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGaWD2GMh8Y
- analognoise 3y ago
  Isn’t that set of videos from a well known right wing grifter and a bunch of stuff was written about him not that long ago?
  - diogenescynic 3y ago
    Not to my knowledge. Everything in those videos is consistent with what I saw while living in San Francisco. I had a homeless tweaker that kept breaking into our building to do drugs in the garage. I know their name and where they’re from because I had to get a restraining order. They were not a local. They were getting social security/disability AND the city gave them cash/debit card monthly. I know because I cleaned up their trash and saw the receipts and that’s how I got their name to serve them. Like I said above, I was a progressive voter my entire life and never questioned it. But there are only so many times you’re gonna clean up human feces or needles before it changes your ideological perspective on deregulating drugs and theft…

hot_gril 3y ago

I find it hard to believe that people who could no longer afford a home in CA became homeless instead of moving to a cheaper state. Or at the city level, I really doubt the homeless people in SF are from SF.

diogenescynic 3y ago

I don't believe that study at all--it's published by people with an agenda who want to slant reality so they keep getting funding. When I see homeless people and talk to them, they openly admin they're from out of state and came here for the drugs and weather. There are people like this guy I've met who are very open about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGaWD2GMh8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGaWD2GMh8Y

analognoise 3y ago
Isn’t that set of videos from a well known right wing grifter and a bunch of stuff was written about him not that long ago?
- diogenescynic 3y ago
  Not to my knowledge. Everything in those videos is consistent with what I saw while living in San Francisco. I had a homeless tweaker that kept breaking into our building to do drugs in the garage. I know their name and where they’re from because I had to get a restraining order. They were not a local. They were getting social security/disability AND the city gave them cash/debit card monthly. I know because I cleaned up their trash and saw the receipts and that’s how I got their name to serve them. Like I said above, I was a progressive voter my entire life and never questioned it. But there are only so many times you’re gonna clean up human feces or needles before it changes your ideological perspective on deregulating drugs and theft…