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Re:The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest... by RoboTeddy on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @11:41PM (#18500193)
> Any attempt to solve the problem locally in a "humane" way has a high risk of just attracting more folks in the same circumstance to the area.

I thought this too, but it turns out that despite San Francisco's relatively high expenditures on homeless, only 10% of the homeless population was living out of state at the time they became homeless. (http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Poin...)

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Re:The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest... by masonic on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @04:24AM (#18501292) 

  only 10% of the homeless population was living out of state at the time they became homeles
That's purely from uncorroborated survey data with neither details nor verification.

A greater percentage of present-day homeless claim to have been housed in SF 10 years ago than the general non-homeless population!

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Re:The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest... by fjsolwmv on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @03:39PM (#18505876)
Why does that surprise you? Non homeless include immigrants and exclude emigrants. People tend to immigrate to the city in their 20s and leave in their 30s.
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