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by demosthenes14 2592 days ago
Seems like this could be heavily correlated with weather.
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Weather has something to do with the amount of shelters? I'm not sure I follow.
There are (legitimate) drawbacks to living/sleeping in a shelter and with moderate weather on the west coast many homeless choose to sleep outside. Shelters here already have empty beds so building more isn’t going to solve anything - there just isn’t a tangible benefit over sleeping in a private tent outside.
That's one hypothesis I suppose.