Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

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.

This is not a well-sourced article. The powers-that-be have been crying wolf long enough that we need to see a wolf. Not an anonymous anecdotal evidence of a wolf.

Joe since thee whole pandemic started I've been seeing increasing homeless encampments. Closing of shelters doesn't explain all of it. Just from a human perspective, if you were homeless why would you not find a way to move to a city where these things are promised?

Yeah I understand that not everybody is moving but we cannot discount the possibility that many are in fact moving.

Of course the possibility exists. But this is anecdotal evidence — anonymous, at that. Basing policy on such thin info would be irresponsible. If hard numbers exist we need to see them. Otherwise they're not there.