A little thread on why homelessness in California is so much more visible than in New York. NY has a legal "right to shelter" because of the Callahan v. Carey consent decree in 1981. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/27/nyregion/pact-requires-city-to-shelter-homeless-men.html …https://twitter.com/samueldodge/status/1070475888620298240 …
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That said, Bay Area homelessness advocates have some hesitations about "right to shelter." They worry it will divert resources away from permanent housing. The ~77K people experiencing homelessness in NYC can get shuffled around in shelters for years.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/18/nyregion/homelessness-step-by-step.html …
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This is a very interesting graph, but I think I'm misunderstanding precisely what it means. The homeless population of LA county according to the graph's stated source, https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2016-AHAR-Part-1.pdf … (p17) is 43,854 and LA county's population is about 10 million
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So that's about 0.5%, but the graph shows well under 0.1%. Am I misinterpreting something? Was there a data entry error that caused an order-of-magnitude difference to show up here?
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