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Re:What San Francisco Says About America by cloudjacker on Saturday September 17, 2016 @10:33PM (#12523659)
Nyc doesnt have less homelessness than sf. Numerically, statistically, per capita, any way you want to slice it. Hit me up about a recent source.

Sf has visible encampments in prime living areas which greatly skews perceptions.

I fell for it to.

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Re:What San Francisco Says About America by BinaryIdiot on Sunday September 18, 2016 @04:35AM (#12524442)
> Numerically, statistically, per capita, any way you want to slice it.

Per capita SF might beat NYC (couldn't find good sources and honestly I'm a little tired at the moment) but "Numerically" and "any way you want to slice it" NYC wins hands down. In 2015 it was estimated that San Francisco had 7,539 [1]. NYC, on the other hand, had 60,456 in 2016 [2].

I couldn't find many sources that differed much than these figures I found even though they're about a year separated.

[1] https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/default/files/2015%20San%20Fran...

[2] http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/basic-facts-about-hom...

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Re:What San Francisco Says About America by fredsted on Sunday September 18, 2016 @12:30AM (#12523938)
Why not just post a source here?
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Re:What San Francisco Says About America by cloudjacker on Sunday September 18, 2016 @12:55AM (#12523995)
On mobile, on vacation, don't have link
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Re:What San Francisco Says About America by Spooky23 on Sunday September 18, 2016 @09:28PM (#12528210)
These statistics are a snake pit.

New York City is unique in that they have a court mandated obligation to provide accommodation. The advocacy people use a factor of the shelter population to calculate the total population, which may or may not be accurate.

I'm not trying to minimize the problem. The fact is those encampments are all over and people is indicative that functioning people can't get placement in SFO. You can't just say "NYPD are jerks" and call it a day like the previous commenter.

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