Today is a sad day. Federal homeless counts, done once every other year, all across the Bay Area have reached staggering highs.
At more than 8,000 people, San Francisco now has the highest numbers since the Willie Brown-era, or right around when @gavinnewsom took office.https://twitter.com/hknightsf/status/1129155331689332736 …
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Counts from around the state. Wow.https://twitter.com/samueldodge/status/1129413797657997313?s=21 …
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Stockton’s population of people experiencing homelessness tripled. LA’s numbers were postponed until next week.https://www.recordnet.com/news/20190528/number-of-homeless-residents-in-stockton-sj-soars …
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This is interesting news from outside California. Seattle's numbers dropped for the first time since 2012.https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/steep-drop-in-king-countys-homeless-youth-annual-homeless-count-shows/ …
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Los Angeles’ numbers came out today. Similar % increase to San Francisco. Anybody compiling 2019 counts from other major American metros? This may be a California-centric phenomenon. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-homeless-count-encampment-affordable-housing-2019-results-20190604-story.html …pic.twitter.com/UFtkOHDydL
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This raw homelessness count figure puts LA at a similar overall count to NYC even though NY has more than double the overall general population.
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Meanwhile, NY's unsheltered numbers are down 2% from two years ago to 3,588 people. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dhs/about/press-releases/fewer-experiencing-unsheltered-homelessness-2019.page …
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Technically, NY has 78,000 people who qualify as homeless in its systems, but because it's a "Right to Shelter" city, you don't visually see as many people sleeping on the street:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/30/nyregion/homeless-nyc.html …
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More on the difference between how East Coast cities and West Coast cities address homelessness here. (The LA numbers in one of the charts in this thread are wrong, though.)https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/1070482286808682496 …
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Uh, clarification: This is very much a *California* issue. I haven't seen devastating double digit percentage increases anywhere outside of this state yet. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1135984110034464773 …
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