Homelessness problem in San Francisco

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Good watch

[Redsox]

1/2 million homeless in usa is definitely low. by a couple million at least.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

In May, city officials braced themselves when a preliminary homeless count was released. They expected the numbers to rise and they were right. Initial data showed that it had jumped 17 percent from 2017. The double-digit growth was bad enough but then it got a whole lot worse.

When the final report was released a couple of months later, it showed the street count increase would have been 30 percent if the city had stuck to the same definition of homelessness as they had in the past. This year, San Francisco opted to use the federal definition instead of the one they wrote themselves.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's definition of homelessness includes people who are living on the streets, in cars or in shelters. San Francisco's own definition widens the category to people without a permanent address who are in prison, rehab or hospitalized. If the city used the same measurement it had in years past, the numbers would show an increase from 7,400 to 9,784 -- or 30 percent in 2019.

City spokesman Jeff Cretan explained the change by saying San Francisco is "looking at the HUD numbers because it helps us work in collaboration with other places like Los Angeles or our neighboring counties."

Some homeless advocates weren't on board with that logic and accused the city of manipulating the findings to make it seem as though more progress had been made when, in fact, the numbers showed the opposite.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-franc...ents-officials

[1bad65]

1/2 million homeless in usa is definitely low. by a couple million at least.

Any sources on that claim?

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Sacramento salon owner claims Californian homeless crisis is forcing her to relocate after 15 years because she has grown sick of multiple break-ins and cleaning up syringes, urine and feces from outside her premises every day

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ss-crisis.html

[jreckoning]

1/2 million homeless in usa is definitely low. by a couple million at least.

It's honestly really difficult to know what the true number is, as a lot of people technically have places for shelter in the U.S with electricity, heat and running water although perhaps not their own.
And that is really difficult to document as some people have fallen almost completely off the grid.

I have read that worldwide over 1 billion people have inadequate shelter which is crazy.

[1bad65]

In May, city officials braced themselves when a preliminary homeless count was released. They expected the numbers to rise and they were right. Initial data showed that it had jumped 17 percent from 2017. The double-digit growth was bad enough but then it got a whole lot worse.

When the final report was released a couple of months later, it showed the street count increase would have been 30 percent if the city had stuck to the same definition of homelessness as they had in the past. This year, San Francisco opted to use the federal definition instead of the one they wrote themselves.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's definition of homelessness includes people who are living on the streets, in cars or in shelters. San Francisco's own definition widens the category to people without a permanent address who are in prison, rehab or hospitalized. If the city used the same measurement it had in years past, the numbers would show an increase from 7,400 to 9,784 -- or 30 percent in 2019.

City spokesman Jeff Cretan explained the change by saying San Francisco is "looking at the HUD numbers because it helps us work in collaboration with other places like Los Angeles or our neighboring counties."

Some homeless advocates weren't on board with that logic and accused the city of manipulating the findings to make it seem as though more progress had been made when, in fact, the numbers showed the opposite.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-franc...ents-officials

And that's after they spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to fight homelessness.

And what's their solution to the growing problem now?

Why, they need more tax dollars to fight the homeless crisis.


It's either blatant corruption or extreme stupidity. Take your pick.

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Whats causing the homelessness?

[BoxingFan85]

Whats causing the homelessness?

Lack of homes..

[jreckoning]

Whats causing the homelessness?

Lack of homes..

That is actually very true. San Francisco is very small geographically so rents are astronomical like Manhattan.