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If you want a glimpse into San Francisco's hardcore homeless, read this excellent Chronicle series from 2003: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SHAME-OF-THE-C
by bcantrill 14y ago
If you want a glimpse into San Francisco's hardcore homeless, read this excellent Chronicle series from 2003:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SHAME-OF-THE-CITY-HOMELESS-ISLAND-They-live-2510831.php http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SHAME-OF-THE-CITY-HOMELES...
This problem is in no way unique to San Francisco; our engineering team has offices in San Francisco, Seattle (Pioneer Square) and Vancouver (Gastown) -- and we can collectively report that there are large, hardcore homeless populations in all three cities.
- frozenport 14y agoIs it a West Coast thing?
- ekimia87 14y agoIm from NYC, and it does seem like there is a bigger problem here. (or at least more apparent)
- gtani 14y agoI remember the Cleveland Plain Dealer had an article a few years back that said the October count of homeless they (some city or Ohio government entity) did every year, the numbers had dwindled to essentially zero, because there were so many unoccupied houses to take shelter in.
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- stephengillie 14y agoSeattle has about 8 "tent cities", plus the massive Pioneer Square and Belltown homeless mobs.
- philwelch 14y agoBelltown isn't even remotely as bad as Pioneer Square.
- cpressey 14y agoI think you see more homeless on the west coast because it's a little easier to make it through the winter without consistent shelter there. (Compared to, say, Minneapolis.) I haven't actually compared against other places on the continent that have year-round temperate climate, so this is just conjecture.
- mml 14y agoI've always wondered when the nigh indestructible homeless of the frozen north might some day migrate to san francisco and take over.
- gadders 14y agoThis is a good article as well: http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_4_san-francisco-homeless.html http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_4_san-francisco-homeless... The tl;dr; version: The homelessness industry of charities etc has a vested interest in the problem continuing.