Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

I mean I and many others don't know that they're looking at the database. If I was homeless might as well move to San Francisco since they're offering services and you'll get something anyway.

People don’t pick up and move to a city where they don’t know anyone during a pandemic. This whole “fear” is concocted for a reason. Show me the data of people flocking here otherwise be wary of the politicians that stoke these fears. It’s a familiar playbook to score points

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I can anecdotally see way more camps and homeless around. It's not fair to them to invite them to a place which cannot support them. Let's wait until there's data. @EskSF, @hknightsf, @TheMarinaTimes should look into it

The specter of homeless people flocking to SF like the Joad family has been bandied about for decades. Far from giving everyone a room, the number of homeless people living on the street who've been given a room is extremely low. Even sick SRO residents aren't getting rooms.

How does that explain anecdotal increases in homeless encampments in GG park and around city hall?

I would think closing the shelters on March 23 and people being scared of congregate settings could be a more likely explanation than an influx of homeless people beating a path to camp on our sidewalks.

As well-worn as the "magnet theory" is, so is the city's own data consistently debunking it. Doesn't mean it *can't* be happening now. But I won't believe it until Breed backs it up with evidence. Burden of proof is on her.