California has the highest poverty rate in the USA

Re:California has the highest poverty rate in the USA by temp-dude-87844 on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:32PM (#16154431)

I don't intend to discount your personal experiences at all, but in San Francisco's 2017 report [1] on homelessness, 69% of counted individuals reported that they were living in SF at the time they became homeless, and of those, 55% had lived in SF for 10 or more years.

Only 10% of total counted reported living outside of California when they became homeless. I can intuitively understand that weather may be a draw, but San Francisco's findings this year, as well as in 2015 don't appear to back that a majority of those experiencing homelessness in San Francisco are travelling there from outside the state.

[1] http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Poin...

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Re:California has the highest poverty rate in the USA by DoreenMichele on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:36PM (#16154462)

I did not say it accounts for a majority of homeless Californians. If it accounts for even 5 percent, that would be a lot of people. Your figure of 10 percent coming from out of state actually supports my assertion that homeless people actually travel to California while homeless. The only thing missing is data as to why they made that decision.

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