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A comment on Proposition C. Parent comment

Re:Proposition C by User23 on Friday October 19, 2018 @07:30PM (#18260829)
If other locales aren't shipping SF vagrants, where is the increase coming from? Is SF especially good at producing new vagrants?
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Re:Proposition C by deathanatos on Friday October 19, 2018 @09:18PM (#18261161)
The survey includes a "primary cause of homelessness" section, of which loss of job forms a very weak plurality.

The increase since 2013 is reported to be only ~2%, (which I find slightly surprising¹) so it may be a bit loaded to ask where the "increase" is coming from. Since the last survey, the population even appears to have declined, slightly.

¹It feels like it has gotten worse, but that's only my impression, and I only frequent a subset of SF, so I may not be seeing areas that have gotten better. The survey is much more comprehensive than my anecdotes, of course.

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