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Quoting the SF link: > Seventy percent (70%) of respondents reported living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless. Of those, over hal
by bsder 2y ago
Quoting the SF link:
> Seventy percent (70%) of respondents reported living in San Francisco at the time they most recently became homeless. Of those, over half (55%) reported living in San Francisco for 10 or more years.
Granted, that report is almost 5 years old and seems to be prior to Covid (which scrambled a hell of a lot). However, it does seem like the vast majority of homeless are local.
> All I have to do is walk down the streets in Los Angeles and it's very obvious the vast, vast majority of the unsheltered here have a substance abuse problem. Another smaller minority have serious mental illness and some seem to be just anti-social who want to live outside the bounds of society.
Welcome to the results of having closed the state hospitals.
Something like 3/5 of the homeless in SF have a traumatic brain injury. Those people need a medical facility first and foremost.
Universal healthcare would go a long way to helping with the homeless problem. However, Americans aren't smart enough to see benefit. Shrug.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoThose are self reported numbers, and the questions are often loaded. We did a similar survey here in Seattle and we had most of the unhoused community saying they were from the pioneer square area of Seattle, which is a bit ridiculous when you think about it. I’d take any of these surveys with a grain of salt, and it is more reliable to go by criminal records (but only works for people who are arrested a lot).
- gosub100 2y ago> Welcome to the results of having closed the state hospitals. Those deprived people of freedom simply for not being of the proper mindset to hold down a job. It completes the circuit "support corporations or get arrested". I'm not convinced about your TBI statistic either. I would guess schizophrenia would be the majority
- JohnPrine 2y agothere are ways to support yourself without supporting a corporation
- creer 2y ago> > Welcome to the results of having closed the state hospitals. > > Those deprived people of freedom Are you actually arguing that closing most mental health facilities was the only way to fight for individual freedom?
- gosub100 2y agoI'm arguing against locking someone up because they aren't willing or fit to be a cog in a wheel (aka function in the confines of a job to pay rent and "stay off the streets"). Not-being-a-wage-slave isn't an illness.