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by verteu 1077 days ago
Unsheltered homeless count is up 65% since 2005 [1], and property crime has doubled since 2009 [2].

So there's a reason people think SF is going downhill.

A 1991 paper [3] estimates homelessness at 535.1/100,000, about half the current rate [4].

[1] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population

[2] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rat...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1749371/

[4] https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francis...

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  So there's a reason people think SF is going downhill.
Something to do with using scarce housing stock for short-term rentals instead of housing residents I assume.
Humans are great at short term trends and terrible at long term numbers I guess.

Edit; three months ago the weather was so much cooler, at this rate it will be 150F on Xmas!

You obviously haven’t been recently. Go check it out. I’ll accept your apology when you return.