*CEO walks into board room* CEO: Since our last meeting, we have put $300M to work on reducing homelessness in SF. Chairman: Fantastic. How’s it going? CEO: Homelessness is at an all time high. Chair: And what’s your plan to solve that? CEO: We’d like to ask you for more money.
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Homelessness in SF is not at an all-time high. Referral to the most recent of the point-in-time surveys: http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017SanFrancisco-PIT-FINAL.pdf …
Thanks for the pointer! Do you know if earlier data is available? Given the limitations of survey methodology it seems this (at least the trend in figure 1) is "no change for 2013-2017 [to within methodological limitations]".