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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NYC is legally obligated to provide families and people experiencing homelessness with shelter because of this court case. No West Coast cities (that I know of) have "right to shelter."https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/10/28/hidden-city …
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It was filed by a 26-year-old lawyer who was working on the side of his corporate legal job at Sullivan & Cromwell. He had never tried a case before.https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/02/nyregion/robert-hayes-anatomy-of-a-crusader.html …
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He had befriended an elderly homeless man named Robert Callahan, the self-styled "Mayor of the Bowery."https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/30/nyregion/attorney-for-homeless-worked-in-two-worlds.html …
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What Hayes wanted was to enforce a specific provision in the New York state Constitution. That the word "shall" in this section, really meant "shall." https://www.dos.ny.gov/info/constitution/article_17_social_welfare.html …pic.twitter.com/EEUj5mNGP2
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This language came through former mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who successfully convinced voters to add it during the Great Depression. He had been a fan of Jacob Riis, the turn-of-the-century muckraker who documented living conditions in tenements.
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Hayes won, but unfortunately, Callahan had passed away on the city's streets before that happened. And that's in part why the unsheltered homelessness rates in NYC are so much lower than in CA. (Our overall per capita numbers aren't that different.) https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-23/homelessness-bay-area …pic.twitter.com/CFjxxyADOM
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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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(this isn't particularly meant as a critique of the graph or the article, just LA jumped out at me as a surprising outlier and I wanted to make sure I understood what was going on)
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@SPUR_Urbanist May need to fix its graph
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