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?

Perhaps the point is about optics. Misinformation is rampant now and this is enough to move to SF if you've got nothing going for you in your hometown.

I agree with you on that. But I've been hearing this for a while — not as a warning to would-be homeless interlopers but as an excuse as to why we couldn't move forward with hotels.