if you read the article you would know that the majority of the homeless population in nyc are sheltered as a 1979 class action lawsuit found that it was a constitutional right for the homeless to be sheltered.
Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that." —- hn guidelines
You're right. that came off as condescending. I'm sorry.
I don’t really know what was meant by this link, but I can say someone I work with does this and it is infuriating. I never know if he is pretending or not when he asks for help. I can’t trust him.
NYC is probably a local maxima, where everywhere around it is more expensive to live with less opportunity for panhandling / social services, and it is a long uncertain hike from there to somewhere that has weather as mild as the San Francisco bay. I also imagine that the social services in the south east are less desirable because of their politics around taxing less / spending less