| They do, and if you dig into them, the numbers show that most people are not from SF. https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2022-PIT-Co... By the agency's own numbers, only 72% of SF's homeless population "became homeless while living in SF." Additionally, among those 72% who "became homeless while living in SF", only 35% have lived in SF for more than 10 years at the time of the census (the agency only has buckets for 0-1, 1-10 and 10+ years, and does not collect the amount of time the person lived in SF before becoming homeless). So, although they may have technically "become homeless while living in SF", 65% are not really "from SF" in any meaningful way (they lived in SF for less than 10 years since they first got here, including time while homeless). Those 65% aren't kids: Only 2% of SF's homeless are under 18, and more than half of homeless were over the age of 25 when they first became homeless. When you multiply it out (0.35*0.72), you end up with an upper bound of just 25% of the homeless population is really "from SF" (as in, became homeless while here and have been here >10 years). It's probably even lower when you consider that the current episode of homelessness is their first for only 23% (so while they may have "become homeless" while in SF, many have been homeless elsewhere before and thus only marginally housed when arriving). |
Only 17% reported being in SF for less than a year, what are you talking about?
> as in, became homeless while here and have been here >10 years
ahahaha oh okay you are insane.