[kevinburke]

People are looking for any scapegoat for the problems in their community so they don't have to look in the mirror.

This is the same reason why there's a persistent myth that homeless are bused in from other states or whatever (when in reality, 70-90% of them were in homes in San Francisco before going on the street). It absolves people of blame

[robertlagrant]

> 70-90% of them were in homes in San Francisco before going on the street

Do you have a citation for that? I could do with a decent source.

[kevinburke]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/homeless-population.ht...

[robertlagrant]

Sadly I can't get to that. Never mind!

[mdavidn]

Here's the source cited by the Times. Skip to slide 24.

https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=3437-2019-greater-los-ang...

[robertlagrant]

Thank you!

That seems to show 65% of the homeless population of LA County were living there before they became homeless - others travelled within state or from another state to be there.

That wasn't quite what I expected to see based on the stats cited above, but it's useful info. Thank you.