>more homeless people show up to take advantage of the great services.
I've never heard of homeless searching for the best place too be homeless! Is there a source for this?
I've never heard of homeless searching for the best place too be homeless! Is there a source for this?
Source: https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2019HIRDRep... (page 18).
"Where Does California’s Homeless Population Come From?"
> As the data shows us, most of the homeless people you pass on the streets every day are in fact Californians. Some may have rented an apartment or once owned a home in your neighborhood.
> Several years ago, L.A.H.S.A. added a question to its homeless survey that captured how long a person had been in Los Angeles and where they became homeless. The resulting data dispelled the idea that the homeless population was largely made up of people from out of state.
> “The vast majority fell into homelessness in L.A. County,” Mr. Lynn said.
> L.A.H.S.A.’s 2019 homeless count found that 64 percent of the 58,936 Los Angeles County residents experiencing homelessness had lived in the city for more than 10 years. Less than a fifth (18 percent) said they had lived out of state before becoming homeless.
> In Los Angeles, a renter earning minimum wage ($13.25 an hour) would need to work 79 hours per week to afford a one-bedroom apartment.
Total weasel words. You move to LA with one week of money for hotel = "fell into homelessness in L.A.".
In Seattle, the local group did a survey like this. About a quarter put their last housing zip code as the one with the shelter, in Pioneer Square, an expensive area if you aren't homeless. GIGO
Both San Francisco and New York have similar proportions of homeless people, but New York has shelter beds for almost all of them whereas San Francisco has shelter beds for only 40%.