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Re:The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company by forrestthewoods on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:59PM (#29598283)
Building a single new unit of housing in SF costs like $400,000 and takes years of cutting through red tape.

There’s far fewer homeless in the Midwest because homes are actually affordable. The poverty, squalor, heroin addiction is just as bad. It’s just out of sight.

Re:The Bay Area has become a large declining tech company by jedberg on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:45PM (#29598724)
> There’s far fewer homeless in the Midwest because homes are actually affordable.

I suspect it also has to do with that fact that if you are homeless in winter you will die.