[angst_ridden]

I assume you can provide some data to back up the assertion that "it's not even close?"

[spoonjim]

What data would you look for to confirm the claim, and what data would you loom for to reject the claim?

[angst_ridden]

Well, something stronger than "everyone knows this."

It's a notoriously difficult thing to study, but you can get some answers by looking at tangential studies to see correlation between housing prices and homelessness, e.g., https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ucla-anderson-forecas... or studies showing a majority of the unhoused in California worked here before becoming homeless https://www.capolicylab.org/employment-among-la-county-resid...

[saas_sam]

I wish I did. A city that is so incompetent as to let this situation arise in the first place cannot be trusted to honestly & accurately account for the root cause of the problem. I want a good source for data that doesn't come in the form of a far-left/right propaganda piece. And if I am wrong I will be HAPPY as hell to be wrong.