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Giving money to your local homeless shelter encourages homeless people to move near you (see San Francisco). Making a lot of risky investments in businesses enc

Giving money to your local homeless shelter encourages homeless people to move near you (see San Francisco). Making a lot of risky investments in businesses encourages people to start new businesses. One of these has positive second order effects on economic growth.

gammarator 1y ago
The vast majority of homeless people in the Bay Area are from the Bay Area. https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-23/homelessness-bay-area https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-2... There is lots of homelessness because housing is expensive. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-about https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...
- ummonk 1y ago
  Those kinds of stats typically consider people like couchsurfers to be "homeless", which is not what normal people typically consider "homeless".
  - skavi 1y ago
    are there stats which suggest "couchsurfer" and non "couchsurfer" homeless people have significantly different origins?
investa 1y ago
Neither helps homelessness. Building more affordable homes is the solution. Which also has 2nd order effects.
barbazoo 1y ago
People that need help are going to where the help is, shocking /s