Most homeless people weren’t renting in SF before they got homeless. These are the people who just gave up in leave. Has nothing to do with rent prices or housing prices.
Truth is, SF is attractive to homeless people because it has nice weather all year round and the politicians tolerate them.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/06/425646/california-statewid...
> Contrary to myths of homeless migration, most were Californians: 90% of participants lost their last housing in California and 75% of participants live in the same county as where they were last housed.
> The study found that for most of the participants, the cost of housing had simply become unsustainable. Participants reported a median monthly household income of $960 in the six months prior to their homelessness, and most believed that either rental subsidies or one-time financial help would have prevented their homelessness.
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Of course all the research (admittedly limited, but there is no research showing this “well known fact”) this well know fact is just false.
Not hard, not complicated.
Even if you give them free housing, they'll mess it up somehow. They can't hold down a job. They don't take care of the home. They'll abuse the home until it's unlivable.
If it's truly unaffordable housing, why the hell are they in SF? Go to somewhere that is 1/4th the price. Plenty of places in the US.
Source: Lived in SF for 20+ years.