[dmv]

You replied to a comment about backing assertions up with facts, with "yet there are no homeless there".

I do not live in San Diego, and "there" implies that neither do you. So let's look at facts before making points through assertion?

The top 5 hits for "homeless san diego" yields the following organizations: http://www.sdrescue.org/ http://sdhomeless.org/ http://www.alphaproject.org/ http://www.rtfhsd.org/

And the latter two provide immediately accessible numbers. Alpha Project "is a nonprofit human services organization that serves over 2,000 men, women, and children each day." The Regional Taskforce for Homelessness in San Diego published a 2009 overview (PDF, http://www.rtfhsd.org/pdf/PITC09.pdf) indicating at least 7892 counted within the San Diego area, at least 4338 in San Diego City.

Those are facts, and they took one minute to acquire. If your point was that there were less per capita, I cannot argue with that as I do not have comps.

[timr]

Well said.

Also, the article he linked had absolutely nothing to do with homelessness. Even if we assume San Francisco to be a horribly governed place, it doesn't automatically mean that the social services lead to homelessness.