This story about a forum of homeless community college students in Silicon Valley is insane.http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-homeless-students-ask-community-officials-to-stop-stigmatizing-them …
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“According to several recent surveys, one in five — or about 400,000 — California community college students has experienced homelessness within the last year. And thousands more are at risk of becoming homeless.”
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
I find this stat puzzling... According to https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/ … there are 130,000 total homeless on any given day in the state. Is there be so much churn in that number that there can be 400k students in one year?
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Looks like the community college data originates from here: https://hope4college.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/RealCollege-CCCCO-Report.pdf …
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there is a lot of churn generally in SF's homeless population. The number
@JeffKositsky likes to cite is that the city dept. takes 50 people off the streets every week, but then 150 more people become newly (or recurring) homeless at the same time.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
In SF, there's 7-8K on any given night through point-in-time counts from 2017/19, but service providers would say they touch probably 20K people throughout a given year. The city also has 6,000 permanent supportive housing units for people who would otherwise be homeless.
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so thats a good 3% of SF population wise that is homeless in a given year? Seems financially challenging to support even if SF gov was functioning well.
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