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I do wonder where the people previously living there go. Our homeless population statistics barely budge year to year, but the gentrification is palpable everyw

• Animats 12y ago
  "Older homeless expected to die off soon" - SF Gate, 2013. "The number of homeless people in the United States is expected to plummet over the next decade as indigents who fell prey to crack and hard times 30 years ago die of premature old age. ... This is the population that was created in the "big bang" of homelessness in the early 1980s, when multitudes of people fell through the safety net during a severe recession or became hooked on the then-new, cheap version of smokable cocaine. The economy recovered later in the decade and the crack epidemic eased, but many of the people who became homeless stayed homeless, growing middle-aged on the streets." "The recession of 1981-82, and President Ronald Reagan's slashing of affordable housing funding to the poor by three-quarters, are fresh in the memories of many of those who have white hair and push shopping carts. Most started out poor, but they say opportunities to climb upward dwindled in their youths." [1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Older-homeless-expected-to-die-off-soon-4387071.php http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Older-homeless-expecte...