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by rossdavidh 1475 days ago
I think there is both less homelessness, and also what there is, is less visible. Some of this is simply scale-dependent. If a town of 1,000 people has a homeless person, he's thought of as "that guy", not scary, and anyway he's only one. If a town of 1,000,000 has 1,000 homeless, it's an encampment, and if they all cluster in the middle of town it causes people to feel unsafe, because they're outnumbered when walking downtown.