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by idlewords 3062 days ago
Please stop spreading this pernicious myth. Nearly 3/4 of the SF homeless population became homeless while living in the city; 90% did so in California.

"The most recent homeless count, conducted in January 2015, found 6,686 homeless people in the city. Seventy-one percent of people reported living in San Francisco when they became homeless, up from 61 percent in 2013. Just 10 percent said they were living outside California when they became homeless, and the remaining 19 percent were living in the state but not in the city."

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/What-San-Francisc...