Immediate stuff in SF is that the funding that was supposed to pass last fall didn't and so were $50M/yr short plus need to cut 3%
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Longer term is that real estate policies are really regressive. The tax write off for the avg home is way more than what the city spends per
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Structural is re-examining regressiveness of US housing policy. Many more tax benefits for upper middle class homeowners than assistance to
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Poor renters whose wages haven't risen in a generation. So one economic shock like illness, job loss, eviction, etc can put them out.
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I wasn't really making an explicit judgment either way. Just pointing out that just bc it's less visible in NYC, doesn't mean it's not worse
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Per capita.
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Also if you read the story, there are lots of homeless service workers in it. Cities needs lots of kinds of workers to function & housing
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System, as it is currently structured in the US, does not really serve the mass base of service workers in urban cities.
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NYC has 10X the number of homeless people as SF. The numbers are basically in ratio. Just literally can't *see* them bc they're sent away
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Also NYC has a court order to offer everyone shelter. http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/27/nyregion/pact-requires-city-to-shelter-homeless-men.html …
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