Everyone, repeat after me. Real estate & homeownership are subsidized at the federal level & enjoy the country's very largest tax deductions. Managing the flipside of these policies is left to the municipal level and city governments, which are largely on their own.https://twitter.com/Smerity/status/958478137884471297 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Even if that is true, that doesn't explain why the problem is so much worse in San Francisco than the rest of the country.
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because East Coast cities have a "right to shelter" which sends them to shelters located out of the central business district. Their numbers per capita are actually larger, but less visible.http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/nyc-homelessness-crisis.html …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Right but that has nothing to do with the original point about the federal/municipal relationship. The East coast cities just have different policies.
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Replying to @schrockn
Yes it does. They still have the same or greater # of people without housing per capita. They are just sheltered rather than unsheltered. They're still homeless.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
I guess to my original point I think having unsheltered homeless centralized in SOMA like some dystopian nightmare is way worse than scattered, sheltered homeless situation in other cities. Meaning the problem is worse here.
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I can see that POV. The experience of it certainly is way more visible & *feels* worse. If ppl want a different situation, then they either need to fund an alternative or set a different legal standard, which is what Carey v. Callahan did in NYC in 1979 (which is also not ideal)
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SF's homeless count is stagnant from 2015; only SF and Portland have either remained flat or declined among major West Coast cities. Everyone else has exploded as the affordability crisis has blown up in large & mid-size cities.http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Homeless-count-in-Alameda-County-finds-5-629-11173433.php …
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