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> Third: there are huge numbers of homeless people in Chicago. Chicago is drastically bigger than Portland or San Francisco, where the homeless problem is more
by HDThoreaun 2y ago
> Third: there are huge numbers of homeless people in Chicago. Chicago is drastically bigger than Portland or San Francisco, where the homeless problem is more visible. Drive down Chicago Ave through Humboldt Park.
Humboldt has less than 10 homeless people. Its a tiny problem relative to the west coast.
Homelessness that people care about are the drug addicts who can not take care of themselves, these people would be homeless if housing cost $100 a month. Their status has nothing to do with housing costs. These types of homeless in SF are not overwhelmingly indigenous.
- tptacek 2y agoThat's just obviously not true, regarding Humboldt Park. It's so not true, it's Google Maps not true. "Humboldt Park t-" literally autocompletes to "tent city" in an incognito window for me. And, like, I drive through there a couple times a week and believe my lying eyes. Regarding the origin of California homeless people, this is an empirically studied question; you don't have to derive your answer from first principles. Are we better at getting people off the street than California? Indubitably. But the scale of our problem is, if not per-capita identical, then at least comparable, by the numbers.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoI walk through humboldt daily. The tent city is 3 tents. People make a big deal of it because our homeless problem is so small compared to the west coasts.
- tptacek 2y agoIt’s just obviously not 3 tents.